Climate change in high mountain regions
From understanding of the past towards modelling of the future
High mountain regions around the world are known to react especially sensitive on climate change. Beside the general interest in the climate of mountain regions its understanding is essential for climate impacts as e.g. changes of glaciers and permafrost and related geo-risks. Although climate research gained much success within the last years in understanding of high mountains climate, the complex geographical structure of mountain regions, however, still limits their climatological understanding and consequently their modelling. Recent efforts provided in particular high quality observational data and regional modelling runs which are, however, limited in their modelling success.
The conference aims to bring together climatologistaround the world with focus on high mountain regions both to describe the status of research and to formulate important issues for the near future.
Topics:
* Reconstruction of mountain climate
* Climate of the instrumental period from highquality observations
* Climate forcings and feedbacks for mountain regions (radiative and others)
* Influence of mountains on climate
* Regional climate model runs for mountain regions
* Snow and ice in the climate of high mountain regions
* The role of high mountain observatories for climate change studies