SESSION 6

Local response of glacial and periglacial environments to multi-scale climate variations: understanding current dynamics in light of past records.

Magali Delmas, Igor Girault, Benjamin Lehmann, Josep Ventura

 magali.delmas@univ-perp.fr

Cold environments in high mountains and high latitudes are particularly sensitive to climate change, regardless of its spatial and temporal scale. This session explores recent advances and new methodological approaches designed to better characterise the impact of climate variability on the current and past state of the cryosphere. Its objective is to promote interaction and exchange between communities of researchers studying glacial and periglacial environments, while also including work dedicated to paraglacial adjustment dynamics. In particular, we wish to highlight work on Pleistocene and Holocene fluctuations in mountain and high-latitude glaciers, as well as work devoted to characterising permafrost through the recording of the thermal regime of the upper layers of the lithosphere. Methodological innovations in the analysis of relief evolution, dating of deposits produced in glacial, para- and/or periglacial contexts, and/or paleogeographic reconstruction of cryosphere dynamics, particularly using numerical modelling tools, will be given special attention.