Cryosphere Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

1. Investigating glacier response to the recent climate change in the Polar Urals, Russia.
2. Asian Ice Core Array (AICA): Reconstruction of Past Physical and Chemical Climate over Central Asia.
3. The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network-CALM: Long-Term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System.
4. Diagnostics and modelling of climate in polar and subpolar regions.
5. Collaborative Research: Diagnosis of Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin.
6. Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic system carbon cycle research through model-data fusion studies using atmospheric inversion and process-based approaches.
7. Contemporary glaciation state in the Arctic, glaciers’ instability and iceberg formation.
8. Estimation of seasonal snow cover, glacial and lake area changes at the Ob'/Yenisey river heads during the last 40 years using NASA ESE products and in situ data.
9. Changes of snowiness in Northern Eurasia in connection to atmospheric processes.
   
10. Evaluating the recent and future climate change and glacier dynamics in the mountains of Southern Siberia.
    
11. Climate change, glacier dynamics, and water availability in the Caucasus.
    
12. Heat, mass and momentum transfer in katabatic winds over glaciers and ice sheets.
13. Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year.
14. State, structure and changes of cryosphere: Cryogenesis and its influence on natural and man-caused geosystems.
15. Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects.
16. The Eurasian fresh water cycle from GRACE and in-situ hydrological networks: distinguishing water cycle behavior in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.
17. Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The U.S. contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network (INPO).
18. Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia.
19. Heterogeneity and resilience of human-rangifer system: A circumpolar social-ecological synthesis.
20. North-eastern Siberia glacier systems: Evolution of morphology and regime for the 20th century and their projections with climatic change.
21. Modelling glacial responses to climate change in the Caucasus Mountains.
22. Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology.
23. Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain.
24. Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.
25. The exploration of the coastal zone in the East-Siberian Sea and adjacent parts of the Laptev and Chukchi Seas.
26. Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.
27. Estimation of seasonal snow cover and glacial area changes in central Asia (Tien Shan) during the last 50 years using NASA ESE products and in-situ data.
28. Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia.
29. Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE).
30. Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.

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Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects.

Principal Investigators: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu), Princeton University, Princeton, USA; Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA; John Cassano (cassano@cires.colorado.edu ), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Co-Investigator: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Collaborators: Larry Hinzman, Igor Semiletov, Daquing Yang, and Doug Kane, University of Alaska – Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Glen Liston, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Mark Serreze and Tingjun Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Laurence Smith, University of California-Los Angeles, Los-Angeles, USA
Tony England, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Marika Holland, NCAR, Boulder, USA
Amanda Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria, Canada
Alexander Oltchev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia

The Eurasian fresh water cycle from GRACE and in-situ hydrological networks: distinguishing water cycle behavior in permafrost and non-permafrost regions.

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Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The U.S. contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network (INPO).

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Jerry Brown, International Permafrost Association, Woods Hole, Mass., USA
Collaborators: Thomas Ostercamp, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Felix Rivkin, Industrial-Research Institute of Engineering Survey for Construction, Moscow, Russia
Alexander Vasiliev, Alexander Pavlov, Natalia Moskalenko, Mikhail Kanevsky, and Anna Kurchatova, All at Institute of Earth Cryosphere, Tyumen and Moscow
Mikhail Zheleznyak, Nikolai Shender, and Yuri Skachkov, All at Institute of Permafrost Strudies, Yakutsk, Russia
David Gilichinsky, Aleksander Kholodov, and Dmitry Feodorov-Davydov, All at Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil, Puschino, Moscow area, Russia
Gary Clow, USGS, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
Scientists from Magadan and Anadyr of Far Eastern Branch of RAS, Russia
Donald (Skip) Walker, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Larry Hinzman, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Frederic Nelson, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Hanne Christiansen, The University Center in Svalbard, Norway
Sharon Smith, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Social vulnerability to climate change in Arctic western North America and eastern Russia.

Principal Investigator: David Atkinson (datkinson@iarc.uaf.edu ), International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Uma Bhatt, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Brandon Kelly, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Craig Gerlach, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

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Heterogeneity and resilience of human-rangifer system: A circumpolar social-ecological synthesis.

Principal Investigator: Gary Kofinas (gary.kofinas@uaf.edu ), Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Brad Griffith, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Matt Berman, at Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska - Anchorage, USA
Collaborators: Gennady Belchansky, RAS Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia
David C. Douglas, Biological Science Office, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Bruce Forbes, Arctic Center, Rovaniemi, Finland
Konstantin Klokov, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Leonid Kolpashnikov, Extreme North Agricultural Research Institute, Norilsk, Russia
Stephanie Martin, University of Alaska – Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Craig Nicholson, University of Massachusetts -Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Don Russell, Environment Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Collaborators: Alexander Vasiliev, Institute of Earth Cryosphere, Moscow, Russia
Stanislav Ogorodov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Oceana Francis-Chythlook, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Michel dos Santos Mesquita, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

North-eastern Siberia glacier systems: Evolution of morphology and regime for the 20th century and their projections with climatic change.

Principal Investigators: Maria Ananicheva (maria_anan@rambler.ru, cest@online.ru), Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Shuhei Takahashi (shuhei@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp), Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan
Co-Investigator: Alexander Krenke, Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Yuriy Kononov and Gregory Kapustin, both at Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
Takao Kameda and Hiroyuki Enomoto, both at Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan
Konosuke Sugiura, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
Kunio Shirasawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

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Modelling glacial responses to climate change in the Caucasus Mountains

Principal Investigators: Maria Shahgedanova (m.shahgedanova@reading.ac.uk), Dept. of Geography, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom and Viktor Popovnin (po@geogr.msu.ru) Dept. of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Co-investigators: Christopher R. Stokes and Dr. Stephen D.Gurney, both Dept. of Geography, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Dmitry Petrakov and Aleksander Aleynikov, both Dept. of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Claude Duguay, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: John Walsh and Igor Semiletov, both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Mikhail Zheleznyak, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia
Vyacheslav Razuvaev, Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Russia
Jens Christensen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain.

Principal Investigator: Peter Romanov (Peter.Romanov@noaa.gov) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Co-Investigator: Dan Tarpley, NOAA Office of Research and Applications, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Collaborator: Lev Kuchment, RAS Institute of Water Problems, Moscow, Russia

Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.

Principal Investigator: Larry Hinzman (ffldh@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Kenji Yoshikawa and Vladimir Romanovsky both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: Nikolai Romanovsky, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Aleksander Georgiadi, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia

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The exploration of the coastal zone in the East-Siberian Sea and adjacent parts of the Laptev and Chukchi Seas.

Principal Investigator: Valentin Sergienko (sergienko@hq.febras.ru) , Far Eastern Branch of RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
Collaborator: Igor Semiletov (igorsm@iarc.uaf.edu), International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: George Hurtt, Xianming Xiao, Richard Lammers, and Alexander Shiklomanov, all at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborator: Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Estimation of seasonal snow cover and glacial area changes in central Asia (Tien Shan) during the last 50 years using NASA ESE products and in-situ data.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen, (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, USA
Co-Investigator: Elena Aizen, University of Idaho, USA
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, USA
Collaborator: Valeriy Kuzmichenok, Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower, National Academy of Science, Kyrgyz Republic

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Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigators: Andrey Shmakin (climate@igras.geonet.ru), Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Meinhard Breiling (meinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at), Technical University Vienna, Department for Landscape Planning, Vienna, Austria
Co-Investigators: Marcia Phillips, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland
Konstantin Rubinstein, The Hydrometeorological Centre of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Golubev, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia
Maxim Petrov, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Zdeno Kostka, Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia (kostka@svslm.sk)

Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE).

Principal Investigator: Raino Heino, (Raino.Heino@fmi.fi) Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Co-Investigators: Eiric Førland, Norwegian Hydrometeorological Institute, Norway
Lev Kitaev, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Aleksander N. Krenke, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Vycheslav N. Razuvaev, Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia

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Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.

Principal Investigator: Pavel Ya. Groisman (Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research at NOAA/NESDIS/ National Climatic Data Center, USA
Co-Investigators: David R. Easterling, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, USA
Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia
Vladimir K. Petukhov, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Collaborators: Xuebin Zhang, Climate Research Unit, Meteorological Service of Canada
Gabriele Hegerl, Duke University, USA

State, structure and changes of cryosphere: Cryogenesis and its influence on natural and man-caused geosystems     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir P. Melnikov (melnikov@ikz.ru), Tyumen Scientific Center SB RAS, RAS Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen, Russia.

Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year.

Heat, mass and momentum transfer in katabatic winds over glaciers and ice sheets.

Modelling climate change, glacier dynamics, and water availability in the Caucasus.

Evaluating the recent and future climate change and glacier dynamics in the mountains of Southern Siberia.

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Changes of snowiness in Northern Eurasia in connection to atmospheric processes.

Estimation of seasonal snow cover, glacial and lake area changes at the Ob'/Yenisey river heads during the last 40 years using NASA ESE products and in situ data.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Co-Investigators: Elena Aizen and Arzhan Surazhakov, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Collaborators: Stanislav A. Nikitin and Uriu K. Narojniy, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

Contemporary glaciation state in the Arctic, glaciers’ instability and iceberg formation.

Principal Investigator:Andrey F. Glazovsky (icemass@yandex.ru), RAS Institute for Geography, Moscow, Russia
Collaborator: Mark Dyurgerov (Mark.Dyurgerov@colorado.edu) Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic system carbon cycle research through model-data fusion studies using atmospheric inversion and process-based approaches.

Collaborative Research: Diagnosis of Changes in Alpine Water Storages and Land Surface Degradation in Pamir Mountains and Amu Dariya River Basin.

Diagnostics and modelling of climate in polar and subpolar regions.

The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network-CALM: Long-Term Observations on the Climate-Active Layer-Permafrost System. Abstract.

Asian Ice Core Array (AICA): Reconstruction of Past Physical and Chemical Climate over Central Asia. Abstract.

Investigating glacier response to the recent climate change in the Polar Urals, Russia.

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