Austria
International Mountain Conference
Dates: 14–18 September 2025
Location: Innsbruck, Austria
The International Mountain Conference (#IMC) builds upon the previous mountain conferences and aims to continue this scientific conference series exclusively targeted towards mountain research. The key goals of the conference are to synthesize and enhance our understanding of mountain systems, in particular their response and resilience to global change. Two GEWEX-related sessions are listed below.
FS 3.316: Precipitation Changes in Mountainous Hydroclimates
Conveners: Michael Brody, Lucia Scaff, Paolo Arias, John Pomeroy, Ali Behrangi
In this session, the conveners plan to explore the research on mountain precipitation, how it changes in a changing climate, and how to tackle the observation-modeling mismatch. Papers are invited that discuss the various observation strategies of precipitation in mountainous regions, novel methods of observation including those that use AI/ML, Earth observation/remote sensing and/or citizen science. Papers are also invited that discuss model advances and evaluate modeling and reanalysis products against in-situ and remote sensing observations in mountainous regions to address the lack of observations.
FS 3.116: High mountain hydrology and cryosphere under global change: observations, modelling, prospects
Conveners: Chris DeBeer, John Pomeroy, Ignacio López Moreno, James McPhee
There is a global need to better understand high mountain atmospheric, hydrological and cryospheric processes, improve their prediction as coupled systems, and diagnose their sensitivities to global change to promote water sustainability. This session welcomes contributions addressing any of the critical research questions, and particularly welcomes contributions on observations from instrumented mountain catchments, theoretical advances and on evaluation of hydrological and atmospheric models using observations to better understand model performance and to see if models reproduce known aspects and regimes of the coupled atmospheric-cryospheric-hydrological system.
