Scientific presentations

Regional impacts of melting ice and snow

 

• For videos of the scientific presentations, go to web-tv and choose chapter.

 

Dr. Robert W. Corell, Director, John Heinz III Center, USA
What have we learned from the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment? (PDF)

Dr. Dorthe Dahl Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
Loss of mass from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet and sea level rise (PDF)

Dr. Jan-Gunnar Winther, Director, Norwegian Polar Research Institute, Norway
What is happening with the sea ice in the Arctic? (PDF)

Dr. Yao Tandong, Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, China
Status on melting and its regional impacts on the Himalayan region (PDF)

Dr. Richard Armstrong, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, USA
A preliminary assessment of the role of glaciers in the hydrologic regime of the Nepal Himalaya (PDF)

Dr. Andrés Rivera, Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Chile
Impacts of glacier retreats in the Andes (PDF)

Dr. Kenrick R. Leslie, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belize
Impacts on Small Island Developing States (PDF)

 

The panel of experts at the conference Melting Ice - Regional Dramas, Global Wake-Up Call (Photo: Torgrim Rath Olsen)