Chairs: Andrew R Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Chris Polashenski, Organization Not Listed, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Convener: Chris Polashenski, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States; USACE-CRREL, Alaska Projects Office, Ft. Wainwright, United States
Co-conveners: Andrew R Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Donald K Perovich, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States
OSPA Liaison: Donald K Perovich, Thayer School of Engineering,Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Seasonal sea ice melt pond fraction and pond freezing estimation using dual-polarisation C-band synthetic aperture radar (16731)
Randall K Scharien1, Jack Landy2, Stephen Howell3, Kerri Warner4 and David G Barber4, (1)University of Victoria, Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)Environment and Climate Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Sub-Regional Sea Ice Preferences of Pacific Walrus in the Bering Sea Using SAR Data (19088)
Alexander Sacco1, Andrew R Mahoney1, Hajo Eicken1, Mark D. Johnson2 and Carleton Ray3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Marine Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States
The variability of sea ice motion in Antarctic (14879)
Chang-Sin Kim1, Tae-Wan Kim2, Hyun Cheol Kim3 and SangHoon Lee1, (1)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (3)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Issues with Moisture Flux Estimation in the Arctic and Changes in the Flux Between 2003-2014 (10279)
Linette Boisvert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dong Liang Wu, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Timo P Vihma, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland and Joel Susskind, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
A Wind-Driven, Hybrid Latent and Sensible Heat Coastal Polynya at Barrow, Alaska (11687)
Daisuke Hirano1, Yasushi Fukamachi1, Eiji Watanabe2, Katsushi Iwamoto3,4, Andrew R Mahoney5, Hajo Eicken6, Daisuke Shimizu3, Kay I Ohshima1 and Takeshi Tamura7, (1)Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Sapporo, Japan, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan, (3)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Australia
Optical Measurements and Analysis of Sea Ice in the Chukchi Sea during the Onset of 2014 Melt (12715)
Alexandra E Arntsen1, Carolyn Stwertka1, Chris Polashenski2,3 and Donald K Perovich4, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)USACE-CRREL, Alaska Projects Office, Ft. Wainwright, United States, (3)USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States
A Possible Correlation between the Surface Temperature and Thickness of Arctic Sea Ice (27066)
Rhett B Herman1, Corey Roadcap2, Jordan Lynn Eagle2, Sarah B Montgomery2, Cameron Baumgardner2, Melissa Carrie Brett2 and Daniel Blake3, (1)Radford University, Physics, Radford, VA, United States, (2)Radford University, Radford, VA, United States, (3)Southwest VA Governors School, Pulaski, VA, United States
The Impact of Refreezing of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice Thinning (9301)
Daniela Flocco, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Daniel Lee Feltham, center for Polar Observation and Modelling at UCL, London, United Kingdom, David Schroeder, University of Reading, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom and Michel Tsamados, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom