This session aims to synthesize recent advances in glacial chronologies spanning from the Local Last Glacial Maximum to the present, with a focused lens on the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau. Key objectives include examining spatial heterogeneity in glacier responses, refining paleoclimatic interpretations using geomorphic and chronological data, and evaluating the relative influence of major climate systems, such as the Indian Summer Monsoon and mid-latitude Westerlies, on glacier dynamics in the region.

Session Themes:

•Progress in Glacial Chronostratigraphy: Local, Regional, Hemispheric and Global Scales

•Multi-proxy approaches in the reconstructions of past glacier variations

•Modeling approaches in reconstructions of past glaciers

•Glaciers as Climatic proxies

•Third Pole glacier and climate history since the Local Last Glacial Maximum

•Karakoram Glacier variations anomaly and its potential evidence in the past

•Holocene glacier variability and associated climatic drivers

•Little Ice Age glacier advances and modern transitions

•Monsoon vs. westerly influence on glacier mass balance across time scales