- Upcoming Events
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5th Annual INARCH Workshop
March 31 - April 1, 2020 | Zaragoza and Benasque, Spain
This meeting was cancelled due to COVID-19, but we will look to hold another in-person meeting when the circumstances allow. In the interim, we are exploring options for a virtual gathering. - Past Events
Climate Impacts on Global Mountain Water Security Session
Water Future Conference � Towards a Sustainable Water Future
24-27 September 2019, Bengaluru, IndiaThe Sustainable Water Future Programme (Water Future) of Future Earth organized a major international conference of Water Future titled 'Towards a Sustainable Water Future' in Bengaluru, India from September 24 � 27, 2019 (https://water-future.org/news/water_future_conference). The conference was hosted by Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Further details about the session, as well as a summary report, are available here.
- High Mountain Summit
29-31 October 2019 - Geneva, Switzerland
The High Mountain Summit was held at the World Meterological Organization Headquarters, Geneva Switzerland. For more information visit the Summit's website. -
4th Annual INARCH Workshop
24th - 26th October 2018 - Chile
The 4th Annual INARCH Workshop was held in Santiago (24th October, in conjunction with the joint ANDEX�GHP�INARCH meeting), and (from 25th - 26th October) at the Hotel Portillo, at 2880 m.a.s.l. in the Andes, ~160 km north-east of Santiago.
Full details of the meeting are available here
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GEWEX Open Science Conference
6th - 11th May 2018: Canmore, Alberta, Canada
INARCH organised an alpine hydrology session at the 8th GEWEX Open Science Conference in Canmore, which took the theme of Extremes and Water on the Edge.
Full details were posted on the conference website.
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3rd Annual INARCH Workshop
8th, 9th February 2018 - nr Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
The 3rd Annual INARCH Workshop was held at the Schneefernerhaus, on the upper slopes of the Zugspitze (Germany's highest peak) on the Bavaria / Austria border.
Full details of the meeting are available here
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2nd Annual INARCH workshop
17-19 October 2016, Grenoble, France
The second INARCH workshop was held at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de G�ophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) in Grenoble, France from 17th to 19th October 2016.
Full details of the meeting are available here
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WCRP�s International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2016
17-20 May 2016, Stockholm, Sweden
INARCH was well represented at WCRP�s International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2016 in Stockholm over 17-20 May 2016 by Richard Essery (UK), Ethan Gutmann (USA) and Kabir Rasouli (Canada).
An overall INARCH presentation by Richard Essery and co-authored by J. Pomeroy (Canada), E. Gutmann (USA), V. Vionnet (France) and A. Winstral (Switzerland) reviewed current thinking on observations and downscaling for alpine hydrological modelling. More information is available here.
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The 6th Third Pole Environment Workshop
16-18 May 2016, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
INARCH was well represented at the 6th Third Pole Environment Workshop, held in Columbus, Ohio from the 16th to the 18th of May, 2016.
Dr Anil Mishra of UNESCO-IHP gave an opening address, mentioning INARCH and IHP. IHP was a major sponsor of the workshop. Dr Joseph Shea, Dr Walter Immerzeel, Dr Maxime Litt and colleagues from ICIMOD gave important scientific talks at the workshop. Dr Peter van Oevelen of GEWEX gave a talk on how TPE might link to GEWEX and WCRP. Dr John Pomeroy presented on INARCH to the TPE group (available here (5.7 Mb PDF), strengthening links to this important initiative. More information is available here.
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Improved Understanding and Prediction of Mountain Hydrology through Alpine Research Catchments
Session C43F (oral presentations): 13:40 - 15:40, Thursday, 17 December 2015: Moscone W. - 3005
Session C33A (posters): 13:40 - 18:00, Wednesday, 16 December 2015: Moscone S. - Poster Hall
Conveners: John Pomeroy and Danny Marks
Mountains receive and produce a disproportionately large fraction of global precipitation and streamflow, including contributions to floods and essential water supplies for at least half of humanity. However, research in alpine catchments is complicated by the data scarcity of mountainous areas and that only a few well equipped alpine research catchments are available around the world. These sessions will address the following questions: How can snow and ice hydrology best be measured in various alpine regions? How do land surface energy and water exchanges differ in various high mountain regions of the Earth? What improvements to high mountain hydrological predictability are possible in various alpine regions through improved process physics, representation of spatial variability and incorporation of ground and remote observations? Intercomparisons of alpine hydrology and development of measurement and modelling methods that can have international applicability are especially encouraged. These sessions form a contribution to GEWEX�s INARCH project.
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AGU 2015 Fall Meeting
14 - 18 December 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA
Improved Understanding and Prediction of Mountain Hydrology through Alpine Research Catchments
Session C43F (oral presentations): 13:40 - 15:40, Thursday, 17 December 2015: Moscone W. - 3005
Session C33A (posters): 13:40 - 18:00, Wednesday, 16 December 2015: Moscone S. - Poster Hall
Conveners: John Pomeroy and Danny Marks
Mountains receive and produce a disproportionately large fraction of global precipitation and streamflow, including contributions to floods and essential water supplies for at least half of humanity. However, research in alpine catchments is complicated by the data scarcity of mountainous areas and that only a few well equipped alpine research catchments are available around the world. These sessions will address the following questions: How can snow and ice hydrology best be measured in various alpine regions? How do land surface energy and water exchanges differ in various high mountain regions of the Earth? What improvements to high mountain hydrological predictability are possible in various alpine regions through improved process physics, representation of spatial variability and incorporation of ground and remote observations? Intercomparisons of alpine hydrology and development of measurement and modelling methods that can have international applicability are especially encouraged. These sessions form a contribution to GEWEX�s INARCH project.
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Inaugural Workshop
23-24 October 2015, Kananaskis, AB
The inaugural workshop was hosted by the University of Saskatchewan's Centre for Hydrology at the Coldwater Lab., Barrier Lake Field Station, Kananaskis Country, Alberta.
Full details of the meeting are available here
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AGU 2014 Fall Meeting
15-19 December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA
Session C43E: Snow Hydrology: Flooding, Modeling, and Vegetation Interactions
Conveners: John Pomeroy, Tim Link, Tobias Jonas, Mukesh Kumar
The storage and release of water from seasonal snowpacks has a vast impact on the hydrology of cold regions. Rain-on-snow melt events can generate floods that are highly destructive and often poorly predicted because of their complex method of formation and reliance on the temporal and spatial coincidence of substantial snowpacks and intense rainfall. However, uncertainties and deficiencies in data, and snow and hydrological models are primary challenges to accurate estimation of snow accumulation and melt, and the consequent hydrological response. Vegetation strongly affects snowcover deposition and ablation processes and can consequently affect the amount of water available for runoff. This session seeks to better understand the processes and characteristics of rain-on-snow floods, how snow hydrology observations and models can be improved and how snow interactions with vegetation cover impact snowpacks, energetics, hydrological response and terrestrial ecology.
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AGU 2014 Fall Meeting
15-19 December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA
Session C33B: Advances in High Altitude Glacio-hydrology
Conveners: Walter Immerzeel, Joseph Shea and Francesca Pellicciotti
High-altitude catchments play an important water supplying role, yet the monitoring and modelling of such regions is complex due to poor accessibility, limited data availability and the lack of simulation models that address key glacio-hydrological processes with sufficient detail. Significant progress has been made during the last years and this session brings together studies that focus on integrating field data, remote sensing and simulation models with the aim to understand present day and future glacio-hydrological processes in mountain regions. In particular, this session focuses on recent advances in understanding high altitude meteorology, mass balance studies, glacier surface properties, behavior of debris covered glaciers, feedbacks between the cryosphere and atmosphere and seasonal differences and changes in runoff composition. The session welcomes studies that: i) integrate different data sources into glacio-hydrological simulation models, ii) that quantify multi-source uncertainties, or iii) that present new model parameterizations of high altitude glacio-hydrology.
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GEWEX 2014
July 2014, The Hague, Netherlands
Session: Hydrology of high elevation areas
John Pomeroy, Richard Essery, Ma Yaoming
This session focused on advances in high mountain hydrology, including precipitation, process understanding, observational advances, model development and validation, applications, climate change impacts and projections of future snow and ice hydrology under a changing climate
