Primary Objectives
Research priorities include investigating precipitation patterns and processes across the Andean region, investigating the atmospheric influences on oxygen stable isotopes and trace elements preserved in high-elevation snowfall, and decoding multi-centennial climate histories from tropical Andean ice cores. The group recently installed a network of meteorological stations, including the two highest in the world, in the Khumbu Himal (Everest) region of Nepal as part of the National Geographic Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition. These will improve paleoclimatic reconstructions from nearby ice cores. Click here for more!
Cluster Members
- L. Baker Perry, Cluster Contact, Department of Geography and Planning
- Anton Seimon, Department of Geography and Planning
Keywords
precipitation, climate change, climate reconstruction, high altitude, Himalayas, Andes, weather station, precipitation monitoring, citizen science, glacier-climate interactions
Sample Work Products
- Subseasonal variations of stable isotopes in tropical Andean precipitation
- Radar-observed characteristics of precipitation in the tropical high Andes of southern Peru and Bolivia
- The freezing level in the tropical Andes, Peru: an indicator for present and future glacier extents
- Characteristics of precipitating storms in glacierized tropical Andean cordilleras of Peru and Bolivia
- Vertical structure, melting layer heights, and antecedent upstream air trajectories associated with precipitation events during the 2014-15 wet season in the central Andes of Peru
Sponsors
National Geographic
National Science Foundation
