3rd ANNUAL INARCH Workshop - Bavarian Alps
Schneefernerhaus, Zugspitze
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany: February 8-9 2018

31 scientists participated in the third INARCH workshop, which was held at the Schneefernerhaus, on the upper slopes of the Zugspitze, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany

• Workshop opening statement
• Workshop summary (Bob Sandford)
• Workshop closing statement
• Article in GEWEX News

INARCH 2018 STATEMENT:

• INARCH’s global mountain observatories are providing a unique set of published, archived, high quality, surface, model and remote sensing datasets that will be made available to WMO-GCW and other global initiatives including remote sensing.
• INARCH encourages process validation and description to inform large scale and operational model advances, acknowledging the need to demonstrate improved predictions of the water security impacts of global change in mountain regions.
• INARCH is implementing hybrid downscaling with moderate (km) scale dynamical downscaling from atmospheric models followed by fine (< 100s m) scale downscaling (dynamical, empirical) to snowdrift resolving scales for improved snow and ice hydrology prediction in support of mountain climate change policy runs.
• INARCH will use these model runs to predict the response of mountain snow, ice and hydrology to climate change, taking into account transient vegetation cover, basin geometry and hydrological and cryospheric storage.

NEXT STEPS:

• Complete Special Issue of Earth System Science Data
• Mountain downscaling toolbox portal completion and posting to INARCH website
• LSS-H Model comparison and development – ongoing project linked to GEWEX-GLASS
• Multiscale climate change vulnerability analysis of alpine snow, ice and hydrological systems GWF PDFs to use CRHM at INARCH basins and provide data to GLASS comparison
• Pre-assessment synthesis article from INARCH for IPCC mountain report May 2019
• Link with Global Water Futures Program – international strategy
• GEWEX RHPs – US Water for Foodbaskets, Canada - GWF, ANDEX

Next Meetings:

• May 2018 - GEWEX Open Science Conference, Canmore
• Sept 4-6 - GEWEX convection permitting USA
• Oct 20 - 4th workshop, Chile

The following INARCH participants kindly formed the Local Organising Committee:
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• Matthias Bernhardt, BOKU
• Karsten Schulz, BOKU