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Interregional TC Project

“Assessing the Impact of Climate Change and its Effects on Soil and Water Resources in Polar and Mountain Regions”

INT5153

(2014-2017)

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

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GLOBAL CRYOSPHERE WATH (GCW)

Cryonet Asia Workshop

Salekhard, Russian Federation, 2-5 February 2016

Short description of

Aim of the INT5153 project

To improve the understanding of the impact of climate change on polar and mountainous ecosystems at the local and global scale for their better management and conservation.

Development of project started in 2011 and the project was initiated by the Russian Federation (RAS, LMSU and AARI) and Chile in June 2014.

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Expected outputs of INT5153 (1)

• Methodologies for monitoring in specific ecosystems.

• Interregional network of laboratories and institutions competent in the assessment of climate change impacts on the cryosphere and land-water-ecosystem quality, which use isotopic and nuclear techniques.

• Young scientists trained in the use of isotope and nuclear techniques to assess the impact of climate change on the cryosphere and land-water-ecosystem quality in polar and mountainous ecosystems.

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• Specific strategies to minimize the adverse effects of, and adapt to, reduced seasonal snow and glacier covered areas on land-water-ecosystem quality in polar and mountain regions across the world.

• Improved understanding of the effects of climate change disseminated through appropriate publications, policy briefs, and through a dedicated internet platform.

• A platform or database with global access for continuing work and monitoring of impact of climate change on polar and mountainous ecosystems at local and global scale, as well as for communicating findings to policy makers and communities.

Expected outputs of INT5153 (2)

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INT5153 participants Argentina Austria

Belgium

Bolivia Brazil

Canada

Chile China

Finland

Germany

Japan

Kyrgyzstan

Norway

Peru

Russian Federation

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Tajikistan

Tanzania

United Kingdom

United States of America

Uruguay

23 countries

FAO/IAEA

IAEA

UNU

UNEP

EC

ICIMOD

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Benchmark Sites

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13 sites, in mountainous regions (polar-temperate-subtropical and tropical) with important role of cryosphere 2 in the Artic, and 1 in Western Antarctica

Benchmark Sites

• Representative of the major problems and trends of climate impact on cryosphere and land-water-ecosystem quality in polar and mountain regions across the world.

• Cold, temperate, subtropical and tropical ecosystems (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Polar regions)

• Truly representative, and logistically available: existing monitoring stations and accessible

• In all cases, analysis is carried out to indicate the potential of scaling out of the results at a national, regional and international level

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Reasons for the selection of the benchmark sites

• Gaps in information on impact of climate change on land-water-ecosystem quality

• Indications and/or evidence for impact of climate change on cryosphere

• Existing datasets • Existing facilities • Related projects

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INT5153 project conceptual model for polar and high mountain regions

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Research questions • (1) What is the impact of climate change on soil and soil organic carbon in polar &

mountainous regions?

Impact on terrestrial agro and ecosystems

Impact on climate change – cryosphere – land-water-ecosystem quality interactions

• (2) What is the impact of climate change on (i) water availability and (ii) soil-sediment redistribution processes in polar & mountainous regions?

Impact on landscape dynamics

Impact on climate change – cryosphere – land-water-ecosystem quality interactions

• (3) How is the cryosphere affected by long-term and current climate change?

Impact on cryosphere

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International Atomic Energy Agency Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Example of question 2 (Sediment – Soil Movement)

Glacier Glacier

Slopes without protection

and loose materials in

front of the glacier (due to

glacier retreat)

Acceleration of

sediment transport

influencing lowlands

and water bodies

Origin of sediments, rate

of sediment production

and pathways

Stabilisation processes

Change in

T and P


Example of question 3 (cryosphere and paleoclimate)

Glacier Glacier

Cryosphere dynamics (mass

balance, hydrothermal

regime of glaciers, etc.)

Paleoclimatic,

paleoenvironmental

records in benchmark

sites

Change in

T and P

Question 3 focuses on baseline / reference studies of cryosphere

dynamics with related projects and paleoclimatic recording


2014 – 2015 Activities implemented

Project Design Meeting in June 2013

First Coordination Meeting in June 2014

Interregional Training Course in October 2014 (Advanced Use of FRN, SEIB)

Stakeholder meeting in Rauris in 2014 (Austria) (Cost-sharing Austria)

Protocol workshop in November 2014

First Patagonia and KGI expeditions in January-February 2015 (Cost-sharing Chile, Russia and Brazil)

First Svalbard expedition in July 2015 (incl. on-the-job training) (Cost-sharing Russia)

Stakeholder meeting for Kilimanjaro benchmark site in 2015 (Tanzania)

Stakeholder meeting for Tajikistan benchmark site in 2015 (France)

Information gap analysis (review of close to 800 „2000-2014“ papers)

Start of isotope and nuclear analysis

What do we do in Svalbard on Sediment-Soil Movement?

Glacier Glacier

Origin of sediments, rate of

sediment production and

pathways?

- FRN (Pb-210/Cs-137) and

ca 20 geochemical

fingerprints (Russia and

Spain) -120 kg

- 3D mapping (Germany) -75

% UAV and 10.000 hs

images

- Long-term screening of

sediment transport for

stabilisation processes

(Russia and UK) – further

improvement

Change in T

15 samples

Core of lake bottom sediments in 2016

(Russia) sedimentation rate (FRN /

paleoenvironmental reconstruction)

100 yr


Svalbard, July 2015 - 127 kg of

sediment collected for FRN and

Geochemical fingerprinting

10m

Svalbard, July 2015 –

measurements of summer

ablation parameters; study of

quaternary deposits sections

King George Island (West

Antarctica), February 2015 –

sampling bottom sediments from

lakes for studying past climate

changes


Uniqueness of the INT project

“Bringing a diversity of disciplines and state-of-the-art

isotope techniques together across regions to improve

the understanding of the impact of climate change on

cryosphere and land-water-ecosystem quality”

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Climate change

in polar, temperate,

subtropical and tropical

mountainous regions

Carbon Cycle Changes

Sediment redistribution from

highlands to lowlands affecting

water quality and quantity

INT Project

Changes in glacier-snow cover-

permafrost


Carbon Cycle Changes

Sediment redistribution from

highlands to lowlands affecting

water quality and quantity

INT Project

Changes in glacier-snow cover-

permafrost

Emission of GHG due to T increase

and feedback mechanisms

Soil Organic Carbon Storage /

Soil Quality interactions

Sediment transport from

non-intervened highlands

to intervened lowlands

Driver for above processes?

Parameters


INT Project

Emission of GHG and

feedback mechanisms

Soil Organic Carbon Storage /

Soil Quality Interactions

Sediment transport from

non-intervened highlands

to intervened lowlands

Driver for above processes

Incubation under different T regimes for temperature

sensitivity and GHG emission, carbon origin (C-13) and

age (C-14)

Isotope and related Techniques

Characterisation linked with geochemical and

environmental parameters

Monitoring of sedimentation rates after glacier retreat,

sediment pathways and origin through the use of FRNs

(Pb-210 and Cs-137, back to 19th century) and ca 20

geochemical fingerprints; temporal sequence of

sediment transport; for different cryosphere settings

Remote Sensing survey of cryosphere dynamics

(glacier retreat-snow cover change), and ground

survey (baseline information; soil temperature)

Sediment cores for paleo-climatic construction

(baseline information)

Parameters

Example: Planned flow of samples and analyses (study of lake bottom sediments for paleoclimate reconstructions)

Each of 127 cm of sediment core (last 1 – 1,5 kyr)

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