CATCOS Phase 2 Glacier WorkPackage Part UZH - Andes CATCOS PSC-4 Meeting, 9 March 2016 CATCOS Phase 2 Glacier WorkPackage Part UZH - Andes Michael Zemp and Nico Mölg World Glacier Monitoring Service, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Switzerland

CATCOS-2: Data Chain from Observers to International Datacenters GGCB No. 1: countries with CATCOS-activities are highly visible

CATCOS-2 Actions in South America – COLOMBIA Position as Visiting Professor offered to: Dr Philipp RASTNER, UZH Colombia: key priorities for last project year Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM) Observations received Support the continuation of the glaciological mass balance program Jointly analyse and publish the glaciological and geodetic data Remote and on-site twinning Outreach activities Photo by J. Ramirez

CATCOS-2 Actions in South America – ECUADOR Ecuador: key priorities for last project year Aerial image 1997 by Instituto Geográfico Militar, EC Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI) Observations received Support the continuation of the glaciological mass balance program Complete the geodetic processing Jointly analyse and publish the glaciological and geodetic data Remote and on-site twinning Outreach activities Jointly analyse geodetic results => PhD Ruben Basantes (EPN) Jointly analyse glaciological results => Bolivar Caceres (INAMHI) => On-site twinning: Nico Mölg in November 2015 @ (INAMHI)

CATCOS-2 Actions in South America – ECUADOR Ecuador: key priorities for last project year Aerial image 1997 by Instituto Geográfico Militar, EC Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI) Observations received Support the continuation of the glaciological mass balance program Complete the geodetic processing Jointly analyse and publish the glaciological and geodetic data Remote and on-site twinning Outreach activities Jointly analyse geodetic results => PhD Ruben Basantes (EPN) Jointly analyse glaciological results => Bolivar Caceres (INAMHI) On-site twinning had to be cancelled due to lack of response by INAMHI....

CATCOS-2 Actions – First Authorship Issues

> 40 valid applications CATCOS-2 Actions in South America – Training Course, Bolivia > 40 valid applications

CATCOS-2 Actions – Educational and Public Outreach Users per country > 1,000 users per day 50-100 users per day wgms Glacier App available from:

CATCOS-2 Actions in South America ¡ EN CAMINO !

international glacier monitoring strategy Key tasks of a glacier observation program Process understanding (and model calibration) Regional variability of glacier changes Representativeness of observation series Global coverage Reanalysis of observation series Assessment of secondary impacts Free and unrestricted international data sharing Publication of results in international journals Outreach activities CATCOS Phase 1 + continue in-situ mass balance observations + geodetic survey for validation/calibration of in-situ series CATCOS Phase 2 + continue in-situ mass balance observations + reanalysis of obs. series + publication of results + outreach WGMS (2008)