Session OSM 05

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Abrupt Changes and Extreme events - Assessment and Risks

Convenors

Ray Bradley, Pierre Francus, Manfred Mudelsee

Description

Abrupt changes and extreme events are recorded in many natural archives of climate. This session welcomes contributions illustrating how the intensity and the speed of abrupt changes, and the frequency and magnitude of extreme events can be recognised, dated and quantified in order to provide an assessment of their frequency and relationship to forcing factors.

Contributions using annually resolved archives are particularly relevant when their analysis yields rates of change and recurrence estimates. We also welcome contributions about statistical approaches used to define the concept of "abrupt changes" and "extreme events" in a useful way for society and stake holders.

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Talks and Posters

Talks

Friday, 16 February 11:00 - 12:30
Chair: Pierre Francus, Pierre Antoine

11:00 - 11:15
Regional reconstructions of the past extreme flood activity from Alpine lake sediments

Bruno Wilhelm, Fabien Arnaud, Pierre Sabatier, Jean-Jacques Delannoy  

11:15 - 11:30
The Indian Monsoon anomaly at 4k; dynamical analogs and cultural implications

Max Berkelhammer, Ashish Sinha

11:30 - 11:45
A high resolution dust flux record of the last glacial period from northwestern Chinese Loess Plateau

Liping Zhou, Jintang Qin 

11:45 - 12:00
The last rapid decline of lake levels on the Tibetan Plateau

Torsten Haberzettl, Thomas Kasper, Sascha Fürstenberg, Thomas Grau, Karoline Henkel, Hao Long, Sabine Miehe, Youliang Su, Gerhard Daut, Peter Frenzel, Junbo Wang, Liping Zhu, Roland Mäusbacher

12:00 - 12:15
Extreme Events: Himalayan Floods
Shipra Chaudhary, Y.P. Sundriyal, Navin Juyal, R. J. Wasson

Posters

Display: Friday, 15 February and Saturday, 16 February
Author attendance: Saturday, 14:00 - 15:30 
Chair: Pierre Francus, Pierre Antoine

4100 years long tree-ring record of extreme temperature events in the Yamal Peninsula
Lyudmila A. Gorlanova, Rashit M. Hantemirov 

Abrupt changes in lake sediment properties are not always reflecting regional abrupt changes: example from varved Lake Yoa, Northern Chad
Pierre Francus, Hilde Eggermont, Dirk Verschuren, Stefan Kröpelin

Abrupt climatic events in continental Europe during MIS5 (Early-glacial / 112-70 ka): highlighting a new reference record at Dolní
Vestonice (Czech Republic)
Pierre Antoine, Denis-Didier Rousseau, Markus Fuchs, Sebastian Kreutzer, France Lagroix, Olivier Moine, Christine Hatte, Caroline Gauthier, Jirí Svoboda, Lenka Lisa

Analysis of tree-ring data of fir (Abies densa) in relation to climate vis-à-vis movement of Zemu glacier, Eastern Himalaya
Amalava Bhattacharyya, Mayank Shekhar, Santosh K. Shah, Vandana Chaudhary 

Gravel beaches: signals of changing sea levels
Helena Granja, José Pinho 

 

Seasonal and centennial cycles of carbonate mineralisation during the past 2500 years from varved sediment in Lake Shira, South Siberia
Ivan Kalugin, Andrey Darin, Denis Rogozin, Gennady Tretyakov

Tree-ring-based long-term snowfall records for western Himalaya, India
Ramratan Yadav, Mahendra R. Bhutiyani