C21B:
Monitoring Changes in Polar Ice Sheets and Sea Ice Using Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing I Posters

Session ID#: 1981

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Michael Studinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Michael Studinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jacqueline Richter-Menge, US Arctic Research Commission & University of Alaska Fairbanks, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Index Terms:

0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
0728 Ice shelves [CRYOSPHERE]
0750 Sea ice [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
NASA’s Operation Icebridge: Using Instrumented Aircraft to Bridge the Observational Gap Between Icesat and Icesat-2 Laser Altimeter Measurements (5837)
Michael Studinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and IceBridge Science and Instrument Teams
 
Recent Changes in Ices Mass Balance of the Amundsen Sea Sector (9603)
Tyler C Sutterley1, Isabella Velicogna2, Eric J Rignot3, Jeremie Mouginot4, Thomas Flament5, Michiel R van den Broeke6, Melchior van Wessem7 and Carleen Reijmer7, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (2)Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (6)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (7)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Massive Perched Ice Layers in the Shallow Firn of Greenland's Lower Accumulation Area Inhibit Percolation and Enhance Runoff (10527)
Michael J MacFerrin, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Horst Machguth, Technological University of Denmark, Arctic Technology Centre, Lyngby, Denmark, Charalampos Charalampidis, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany, Dirk van As, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, Waleed Abdalati, University of Colorado, Department of Geography, Boulder, United States and Scambos Ted, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Bed Topography of Store Glacier and Fjord, Greenland from High-Resolution Gravity Data and Multi-Beam Echo Sounding (11569)
Lu An1, Eric J Rignot2,3, Atsuhiro Muto4, Prof. Mathieu Morlighem1 and Christopher Kemp5, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (5)TerraSond Limited, Seattle, WA, United States
 
A Digital Elevation Model of the Greenland Ice Sheet based on Envisat and CryoSat-2 Radar Altimetry (12048)
Joanna F Levinsen1, Benjamin Eaton Smith2, Louise Sandberg Sorensen1, Kirill Khvorostovsky3 and Rene Forsberg4, (1)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (3)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Polar Environmental Remote Sensing, Bergen, Norway, (4)Technical University of Denmark, Space, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
 
The unfolding instability of the remnant Larsen B Ice Shelf and its tributary glaciers (16241)
Ala Khazendar1, Christopher P Borstad2, Bernd Scheuchl3, Eric J Rignot3 and Helene Seroussi4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
16 Year Ice Velocity Record of the Larsen-B and –C Ice Shelves Based on Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Data. (13876)
Bernd Scheuchl1, Jeremie Mouginot2, Eric J Rignot1, Ala Khazendar3 and Christopher P Borstad4, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
 
Satellite observation of winter season liquid meltwater storage within Greenland’s firn aquifer: 1992-2014 (14449)
Julie Miller, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Richard R Forster, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, David G Long, Brigham Young University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Provo, United States, Scambos Ted, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands and Michiel R van den Broeke, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Sensing the bed-rock movement due to ice unloading from space using InSAR time-series (14661)
Wenliang Zhao1, Falk Amelung1, Timothy H Dixon2 and Shimon Wdowinski1, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida, School of Geosciences, Tampa, United States
 
Changes in Ice Flow Dynamics of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica and Impacts on Ice Mass Balance (17612)
Xin Li1, Eric J Rignot2, Jeremie Mouginot1, Bernd Scheuchl2 and Lu An1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Remote Estimation of Greenland Ice Sheet Supraglacial River Discharge using GIS Modeling and WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery (18040)
Vena W. Chu1, Laurence C Smith2, Kang Yang1, Colin J Gleason3, Asa K Rennermalm4, Lincoln H H Pitcher5, Carl J Legleiter6 and Richard R Forster7, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES); Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, RI, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (6)University of Wyoming, Department of Geography, Laramie, WY, United States, (7)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
20,000 Photons Under the Snow: Subsurface Scattering of Visible Laser Light and the Implications for Laser Altimeters (18427)
Adam Greeley, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, United States, Mark Shappirio, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States, William B Cook, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States
 
Antarctic Ice Mass Balance from GRACE (19633)
Yvonne L Firing1, Carmen Blackwood2, David N Wiese3, Michael M Watkins1, Nicole Jeanne Schlegel4 and Eric Y Larour5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
GRACE and ICESat Data for Estimation of Ice Sheet Surface Changes in LAS, East Antarctica (22144)
Huan Xie1, Xiaolei Ju2, Jun Liu2, Zhenxiong Gu2, Shijie Liu2, Yixiang Tian1, Lei Chen2, Yunzhong Shen2, Xiaohua Tong1, Bo Sun3 and Rongxing Li4, (1)Tongji University, Center for Spatial Information Science and Sustainable Development Applications and College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Shanghai, China, (2)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (3)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (4)2570 Lane Road, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Temporal evolution of the snow density near the surface at Dome C on Antarctica Plateau (22324)
Nicolas Champollion1, Ghislain Picard2, Laurent Arnaud2, G Macelloni3 and Frederique Remy4, (1)International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland, (2)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (3)CNR Institute of Applied Physics, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, (4)CNRS - Legos, Toulouse, France
 
Firn and percolation conditions in the vicinity of recently formed high elevation supra-glacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet assessed by airborne radar (24929)
Santiago de la Peña, Ohio State University Main Campus, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Ian Howat, Ohio State University, Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Christine Chen, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Los Alamos, United States
 
Improved Bathymetry Resolution in the Ross Sea from Aerogravity and Magnetics: Examples from Operation IceBridge. (25318)
Kirsty J Tinto1, James R. Cochran2, Robin Elizabeth Bell1, Kevin Charles3 and Bethany Burton4, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Sander Geophysics Ltd, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)USGS, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States
 
Mapping Antarctic grounding lines from Cryosat-2 (26965)
Bert Wouters, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Jonathan L Bamber, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
 
Novel Measurements and Techniques for Outlet Glacier Fjord Ice/Ocean Interactions (27247)
Alberto Behar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (deceased), Pasadena, CA, United States, Ian Howat, Ohio State University, Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, David M Holland, New York University, New York, NY, United States, Andreas P Ahlstrom, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark and Signe Hillerup Larsen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark
 
SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF SATURATED CREVASSES ALONG THE MARGINS OF JAKOBSHAVN ISBRÆ (28053)
Allison Ring, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, United States and Derrick Julius Lampkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Recalibration of Coupled Optical/Thermal MODIS Infrared Surface Melt Magnitude Retrieval During the Spatially-Extensive 2012 Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Event (30225)
Christopher Charles Karmosky1, Derrick Julius Lampkin2, David B Reusch3 and John Reasons1, (1)University of Tennessee Martin, Department of Agriculture, Geosciences and Natural Resources, Martin, TN, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Recent results on the Greenland Aquifer from remote sensing and in situ measurements (30659)
Richard R Forster, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Julie Miller, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, Clément Miège, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, Ludovic Brucker, NOAA NESDIS STAR & US National Ice Center (USNIC), Satellite Oceanography & Climatology Division, College Park, MD, United States, Lora Koenig, Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, CO, United States, Kip Kip Solomon, University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Evan W Burgess, Airborne Snow Observatories Inc., Mammoth, United States and Jason Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Derive Icebridge Sea-Ice Freeboard and Thickness Data through Full Waveform Analysis (10259)
Donghui Yi, SGT Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jeremy P Harbeck, ADNET Systems Inc. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Serdar Manizade, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, United States, Michelle A Hofton, Univ Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Science Lab, Greenbelt, United States and Michael Studinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Icesat-2: The Next Generation Laser Altimeter Mission for Polar Research – an Update on Development Status and Science Data (10560)
Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, United States, Anthony J Martino, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States and ICESat-2 Science Definition Team
 
Arctic Sea ice thickness loss determined using subsurface, aircraft, and satellite observations (13783)
Ronald W Lindsay, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Axel J B Schweiger, University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Integrated Airborne and In-Situ Measurements over Land-Fast Ice near Barrow, AK. (14572)
Joan M Gardner, Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, John M Brozena, US Naval Research Laboratory, retired, Washington, DC, United States, Robert Liang, US Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing Division, Washington, D.C., United States, David Ball, ITT Exelis Inc. Herndon, Herndon, VA, United States, Jacqueline Richter-Menge, US Arctic Research Commission & University of Alaska Fairbanks, Hanover, NH, United States, Keran J Claffey, USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, Andrei Abelev, US Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, David A Hebert, Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Kate Jones, Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program, Washington, DC, United States
 
Radar Interferometric Possibilities for Determining Sea Ice Thickness (18827)
Scott Hensley1, Benjamin Holt1, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok2, Jeffrey L Steward2, Shadi Oveisgharan2, Delwyn Moller3, Andrew R Mahoney4 and Jim Reis5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Fugro Earthdata International, Frederic, MD, United States
 
Using Sea Ice Age as a Proxy for Sea Ice Thickness (26223)
Julienne Christine Stroeve1, Mark A Tschudi2 and James A Maslanik2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Monitoring Land-fast Sea Ice in the Western Antarctic Through Multi-sensor Data Fusion (31519)
Miae Kim1, Jungho Im1, Jin-woo Kim1, Sanggyun Lee2 and Minso Shin1, (1)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
 
Estimation of Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard and Thickness Using CryoSat-2 (31612)
Sanggyun Lee1, Jungho Im2, Jin-woo Kim2, Miae Kim2 and Minso Shin2, (1)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea, (2)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of (South)
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