Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025 (BACO-25)
Dates: 20–25 July 2025
Location: Busan, Republic of Korea
BACO-25 will take place over six days in July, when colleagues from academia, government, and industry worldwide will engage in scientific presentations, discussions, information exchanges, and international cooperation in the Earth sciences. A session of interest to the GEWEX community is listed below.
Session title: JCM02 Cryosphere changes and potential drivers in High Mountain Asia
Conveners: Mohd. Farooq Azam, Lijuan Ma, Raaj Ramsankaran, and Peter J. van Oevelen
Description: Understanding the response of the High Mountain Asia (HMA) cryosphere to climate change is crucial for millions of people living downstream who partly depend on meltwater. Changes in snow cover and permafrost still need to be better understood. Contributions based on remote sensing, in-situ observations, or numerical modeling of cryosphere changes in the HMA are invited. The conveners especially encourage studies integrating atmospheric and cryospheric interactions with remote sensing data and exploring the potential drivers behind observed changes.
