Day 2 veena prasad, divecha centre for climate change, india(revised), arrcc-carissa workshop
1. EFFECT OF HIGH EMISSION
CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIO
ON GLACIERS IN SATLUJ BASIN
Veena Prasad1, Anil V. Kulkarni1, Pradeep S1, Pratibha S1, Sayli A. Tawde2,
Tejal Shirsat1, Arya A. R1, Andrew Orr3, and Daniel Bannister3
1Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560 012,
India.
2Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru-560
012, India.
3British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
2. MASS BALANCE
• Mass balance: important to assess the growth or
decline of water stored in a glacier.
• Glaciological method (field estimates) limited to a
few glaciers due to mountainous terrain and logistic
reasons.
• Therefore, other methods such as geodetic and area
accumulation ratio (AAR) have been used to
estimate basin-wide glacier mass balance.
Kulkarni et al, 2004
5. SEASONAL CYCLE: PRECIPITATION
The seasonal cycle of precipitation (mm d−1) at Kaza station
averaged over the period 1984-2005. The precipitation from the
CRU, APHRODITE and GMFD datasets at the grid point where
Kaza station is located are also shown (Tawde et al., 2017).
6. CNRM-CM5 and GFDL-CM3
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8
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6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Changeinmeantemperaturesince2010(°C)
2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100
Changeinprecipitationaccumulationsince2010
(mm)
-500
-1000
-1500
1000
500
0
2500
2000
1500
4000
3500
3000
•Provide a good spread of possible future temperatures.
•The CNRM-CM5 model showed one of the largest increases in
precipitation over the Satluj by the end of the century
•The GFDL-CM3 model showed a relatively dry climate to the mid-
century, followed by a wetter climate towards the end of the century.
7. CHANGE FACTOR CORRECTION
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-6
-3
0
3
6
9
-9
-6
-3
0
3
6
9
2030 2050 2070 2090
Snowfall(%)
Temperature(°C)
Snowfall GFDL
Temperature GFDL
0
1
2
3
4
5
jan
feb
mar
apr
may
jun
jul
aug
sep
oct
nov
dec
Precipitation(mm/day)
Month
2003-2013
2045-2055
2085-2095
0
1
2
3
4
jan
feb
mar
apr
may
jun
jul
aug
sep
oct
nov
dec
Precipitation(mm/day)
Month
2003-2013
2045-2055
2085-2095
Change factor methodology
Model precipitation&
temperature anomaly
In-situ precipitation
& temperature
Future precipitation and
temperature
KAZA RACKCHAM
SEASONAL CYCLE: WINTER PRECIPITATION