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Mountain ecosystems in EC-01-C2 PoC Antonello Provenzale

Mountain ecosystems in EC-01-C2 PoC Antonello Provenzale (Presented by Yubao Qiu, GEO Secretariat) ISRSE35 (Beijing International Convention Center) 23 April, 2013.

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Mountain ecosystems in EC-01-C2 PoC Antonello Provenzale

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  1. Mountain ecosystems in EC-01-C2 PoC Antonello Provenzale (Presented by Yubao Qiu, GEO Secretariat) ISRSE35 (Beijing International Convention Center) 23 April, 2013

  2. Issues:changes in the mountain environmentchanges in population dynamics of key specieschanges in ecosystem structure:species distributionphenology

  3. Ev-K2-CNR Projects Stations at High Altitude for Research on Environment

  4. Urdukas Pakistan 3.926 m Mt. Rwenzori (4700 m, Uganda) Mt. Cimone (2165m, Italy) NCO-P (5079m, Nepal) With its stations in Europe, Asia and Africa, today SHARE represents Italy’s expert contribution to international integrated scientific projects on the climate and environment, such as: UNEP-ABC, WMO-GAW, GEO, NASA-AERONET, ILTER, ACTRIS. Chacaltaya (Andes) Bolivia S.America Chacaltaja GAW-WMO Station Ozone monitoring 3,280

  5. Kala Patthar (5,550 m) Changri Nup (5,750 m) Pyramid (5,050 m) South Col (7,986 m) Periche (3,560 m) Syanboche (3,900 m) NCOP-P (5,079 m) Namche (3,560 m) Lukla (2,660 m) Khumbu valley: 8 stations

  6. PILOT Projects PILOT Projects PILOT Projects The Nepal Climate Observatory - Pyramid (Nepal, 27.95N, 86.82E, 5079 m a.s.l.) has been installed in February 2006 in the high Khumbu Valley, above the timber line in a rocky and mossy environment not far from the base camp area of Mt. Everest. The Observatory is running in the framework of the Atmospheric Brown Clouds Project (ABC) of UNEP, and is part of AERONET network and WMO-GAW program. Since 2010 NCO-P is a global GAW station. The instrument set-up was defined in accordance with “ABC” Project standards (Ramanathan et al., 2006) da The power needed to carry out the experimental activity (~ 3 kW) is provided by 96 photovoltaic panels with 120 electric storage cells Lat. N 27°57' Lon. E 86°48’ Altitude: 5079 m asl

  7. PILOT Projects PILOT Projects PILOT Projects PILOT Projects • The NCO-Pyramid performs in-situ the following continuous measurements: • Aerosol Number Concentration and Size Distribution (from 10nm to 32µm) • Absorption coefficient (Black Carbon Concentration) • Total and Back Scattering Coefficient • Aerosol Optical Depth • Surface Ozone Concentrations • Meteorological Parameters (Air temperature, Atmospheric pressure, Relative humidity, Wind speed and direction, Precipitation) • Greenhouses Gas Concentration (CFC, HFC, HCFC,...; in flask) • Chemical Characterization (organic and inorganic) of AerosolParticles (high volume sampling on quartz filters)

  8. SHARE - PAPRIKA project “Cryospheric responses to anthropogenic pressures in the Hindu Kush – Karakoram – Himalaya: impacts on water resources and availability.” focus on the Baltoro region, Pakistan.

  9. Precipitation and snow data from gridded datasets, reanalyses and climate models E. Palazzi, J. von Hardenberg, A. Provenzale, JGR Atmospheres 2013

  10. Importance of snow cover for mountain ecosystems: examples from the Italian Alps

  11. Population dynamics of Alpine ibex in the Gran Paradiso National Park

  12. Adult survival and average snow depth Nov-May A term density*snow explains about 44% of the variance

  13. Kid survival behaves differently Before 1985, a term density*snow explains up to 80% of the variance

  14. Snow and Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in the Veglia-Devero natural park Foto: Archivio PNGP

  15. Ptarmigan counts (1996-2012)

  16. Dependence on snowmelt and snow cover start dates

  17. Effects of climate change (snow cover reduction) on rock ptarmigan

  18. Thanks

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