C21C:
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere III Posters

Session ID#: 2017

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Melody J Sandells, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Convener:  Melody J Sandells, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States and Marco Tedesco, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Distinguishing Ice from Snow for Melt Modeling Using Daily Observations from MODIS (5304)
Karl Rittger1,2, Mary J. Brodzik3,4, Adina Racoviteanu5, Andrew P Barrett2,6, Siri Jodha S Khalsa2,5, Thomas H Painter7, Richard L Armstrong2,8 and Annie Bryant Burgess9, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States, (6)National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Southern California, Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Using TerraSAR-X and hyperspectral airborne data to monitor surface deformation and physical properties of the Barrow permafrost landscape, Alask (23151)
Mahmud Haghshenas-Haghighi1, Mahdi Motagh2, Birgit Heim3, Torsten Sachs2, Katrin Kohnert1 and Dmitry A Streletskiy4, (1)Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Potsdam, Germany, (4)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
 
Comparison of Near−Surface Air Temperatures from Multiple AWS and MODIS Ice−Surface Temperatures at Summit, Greenland (2008−2014) (8604)
Christopher A. Shuman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Dorothy K Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Thomas K Mefford, NOAA / ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States and Michael J. Schnaubelt, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Monitoring of the ground surface temperature and the active layer in NorthEastern Canadian permafrost areas using remote sensing data assimilated in a climate land surface scheme. (24257)
Nicolas Marchand1, Alain Royer1, Gerhard Krinner2 and Alexandre Roy1, (1)University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, (2)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
 
Validation of supraglacial bathymetry models developed for optical sensors using high-resolution stereo-imagery: Implications for meltwater storage assessments across the ablation region of the Greenland ice sheet. (9734)
Mahsa S Moussavi1,2, Waleed Abdalati3,4, Allen Pope5 and Scambos Ted2,5, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Department of Geography, Boulder, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Retreival of Sea Ice Properties from AMSR-E Measurements with an Analytical Relationship Between Fresnel Reflectivity. (10003)
Sang-Moo Lee1, B.J. Sohn1 and Eui-Jong Kang2, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Snow cover detection and snow depth algorithms for the Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) AMSR2 instrument using AMSR-E/AMSR2 measurements (29509)
Yong-Keun Lee, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States, Cezar Kongoli, University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States and Jeffrey Robert Key, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, United States
 
Simulation and Analysis of Icesat-2 Point Clouds (10393)
Prof. John P Kerekes, PhD1, Scott Brown1, Jiashu Zhang1, Jie Yang1, Beata M Csatho2 and Anton F Schenk3, (1)Rochester Institute of Technol, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States, (3)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States
 
The use of airborne radar reflectometry to establish snow/firn density distribution on Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic: A path to understanding complex heterogeneous internal layering patterns (17159)
Anja Rutishauser1, Cyril Grima1, Martin J Sharp2, Donald D Blankenship1, Duncan A Young3 and Julian A. Dowdeswell4, (1)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (2)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Object-Based Aerial Photos Analysis for Arctic Sea Ice Melt Ponds and Pressure Ridges (10720)
Xin Miao, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, United States, Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, San Antonio, United States, Changqing Ke, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Ruibo Lei, Polar Research Institute of China, Key Laboratory for Polar Science of the MNR, Shanghai, China
 
Decadal-scale dynamic changes on Novaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic, from remotely sensed imagery (12035)
Tom Holt1, Rachel Carr2, Heather Bell3 and Laura Ludwinski-Heydenkorn3, (1)Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (3)Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
 
Determining Crevasse Sequences in Surging Glaciers using Neural Network Classification from Remotely Sensed Images of Bering Glacier, AK (14287)
Jessica Bobeck, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geography, Boulder, CO, United States, Ute C Herzfeld, University Colorado Boulder, Geomathematics, Remote Sensing and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory; Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Lukas Goetz-Weiss, Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States and Griffin Hale, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Louisville, CO, United States
 
Seasonal and Intra-Seasonal Variability of Surface Streams Over the West Greenland Ice Sheet from High Resolution Satellite Optical Data. (14707)
Michael Gregory Brown, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States and Marco Tedesco, Columbia University, Palisades, United States
 
Regional and interannual variations of freezing and melting at GRENE Arctic observation sites derived by satellite microwave data (14911)
Nuerasimuguli Alimasi1,2, Hiroyuki Enomoto1,3 and Takao Kameda2, (1)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan, (3)SOKENDAI Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Buried CO2 Ice traces in South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars detected by radar sounder (15227)
Luigi Castaldo1, Daniel Mège1,2, Roberto Orosei3 and Antoine Séjourné4, (1)Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Science, Wrocław, Poland, (2)Université de Nantes, Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geodynamique, Nantes, France, (3)Istituto di Radioastronomia, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Bologna, Italy, (4)Université Paris-Sud 11, Départment Sciences de la Terre, Orsay, France
 
Airborne geophysical survey of ice caps in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Canada (15672)
Steven John Palmer1, Julian A. Dowdeswell2, Poul Christoffersen3, Toby J Benham3, Duncan A Young4, Donald D Blankenship5, Tom Richter4, Gregory Ng6, Cyril Grima7, Feras Habbal8, Martin J Sharp9 and Anja Rutishauser5, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (6)University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (7)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (8)University of Texas at Austin, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (9)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
Analytical Incorporation of Velocity Parameters into Ice Sheet Elevation Change Rate Computations (16870)
Sudhagar Nagarajan1, Yushin Ahn2 and Ramesh S V Teegavarapu1, (1)Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, school of technology, Houghton, MI, United States
 
Land Cover and Permafrost Change Mapping Using Dense Time Stacks of Landsat and Quickbird Imagery (18065)
Kelsey E Nyland1, Dmitry A Streletskiy2 and Nikolay I Shiklomanov2, (1)The George Washington University, Department of Geography and Environment, Washington, DC, United States, (2)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
 
The monitoring of ice sheet movement using multiple spaceborne data fusion: A case study of a remote sensing observation over Russell Glacier in Greenland (31635)
YunSoo Choi1, Jungrack Kim1, Shih-Yuan Lin2 and Wei-Chen Chen2, (1)University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Towards the Improved Estimates of Mountain Snow Water Equivalent Using Space-borne Passive Microwave Measurements: an Ensemble Kalman Batch Reanalysis over the Upper Kern Basin, Sierra Nevada, USA (18326)
Dongyue Li, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Steven A Margulis, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
New Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Variability of Antarctica for Intercomparison of L-band Satellite Brightness Temperatures (18715)
Hemanshu Patel, Edward J Kim and Albert Wu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Investigating the Cause of the 2012 Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland Using High Resolution Observations of the Glacier Terminus (18856)
Ryan Cassotto, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States; University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States, Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Margaret S Boettcher, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, AK, United States and Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Advanced Ice Velocity Mapping Using Landsat 8 (19058)
Scambos Ted1, Marin J Klinger2, Mark A Fahnestock3 and Terence M Haran1, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Monitoring Glacier change at the Academy of Sciences Icecap, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic (19769)
Garth Ornelas, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, United States, Michael J Willis, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States; University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Matthew E Pritchard, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Andrew K Melkonian, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States
 
Identification and Interpretation of a Surge-type Glacier in the Central Tibetan Plateau with Multi-source Satellite InSAR Datasets (19904)
Lin Liu1,2, Liming Jiang2, Yafei Sun1,2, Yongling Sun1,2 and Hansheng Wang2, (1)UCAS University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
 
Investigatigating inter-/intra-annual variability of surface hydrology at northern high latitude from spaceborne measurements (22169)
Kevin (Kyung-Kuk) Kang1,2 and Claude R Duguay2,3, (1)University of Waterloo, Department of Geography & Environmental Management and Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)H2O Geomatics, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (3)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
Seasonal evolution of melt pond characteristics derived from Worldview and Quickbird imagery (22345)
Carolyn Stwertka1, Chris Polashenski1,2, Elias J Deeb3, Donald K Perovich4 and Alexandra E Arntsen1, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)USACE-CRREL, Alaska Projects Office, Ft. Wainwright, United States, (3)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States, (4)CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States
 
McMurdo Ice Shelf Sounding and Radar Statistical Reconnaissance at 60-MHz: Brine Infiltration Extent and Surface Properties (22986)
Cyril Grima, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, Arami Rosales, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Donald D Blankenship, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States and Duncan A Young, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
 
Assessing the utility of passive microwave data for Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) estimation in the Sutlej River Basin of the northwestern Himalaya (24164)
Ty Brandt, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, Bodo Bookhagen, University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Jeff Dozier, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Improving Estimates of Cloud Radiative Forcing over Greenland (24717)
Wenshan Wang, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Charles S Zender, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science and Computer Science, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Mapping Glacial Weathering Processes with Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing: A Case Study at Robertson Glacier, Canada (25674)
Alicia M Rutledge1, Philip R Christensen2, Everett Shock2 and Peter A Canovas3, (1)Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, United States, (2)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Weekly Polar-Gridded Aquarius Products and their Applications over the Cryosphere (27307)
Ludovic Brucker1, Emmanuel Dinnat2 and Lora Koenig2, (1)NOAA NESDIS STAR & US National Ice Center (USNIC), Satellite Oceanography & Climatology Division, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Land Surface Properties near Terra Nova Bay, East Antarctica, Analyzed by Time-series Height, Coherence and Amplitude Maps Derived from COSMO-SkyMed One-day Tandem Pairs (27910)
Younghun Ji1, Hyangsun Han1 and Hoonyol Lee2, (1)Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Kangwon National University, Department of Geophysics, Chuncheon, South Korea
 
Mapping Antarctica using Landsat-8 – the preliminary results (28352)
Xiao Cheng1, Fengming Hui1 and Dr. Xin Qi2, (1)Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
Mapping Hazardous River Ice from High Resolution Satellite Imagery (28542)
Chas Jones Jr1, Knut Kielland1, Anupma Prakash2 and Larry D Hinzman1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Geology and Geosciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Summer snowmelt patterns in the South Shetlands using TerraSAR-X imagery (28804)
Carla Mora1, Juan Javier Jimenez2, Joao Catalao Fernades1, Alice Ferreira1, Ana David1, M Ramos3 and Goncalo Vieira1, (1)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, (2)University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, (3)Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
 
A hidden state space modeling approach for improving glacier surface velocity estimates using remotely sensed data (30136)
Daniel Henke1, Adrian Schubert2, David Small2, Erich Meier2, Martin P Luethi2 and Andreas Vieli2, (1)Remote Sensing Laboratories(RSL), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Testing a Light-weight Compact Gamma Ray Detector for Measuring Snow Water Equivalent (30265)
Eyal Saiet II1, Daniel John Solie1 and Matthew Sturm2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Derivation of Volumetric Liquid Water Content from the RADARSAT-1 SAR Images over a Permafrost Region in interior Alaska (30575)
Adeniyi Abiodun Adewuyi, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Butte, MT, United States and Xiaobing Zhou, Montana Technological University, Geophysics, Butte, MT, United States
 
Ice Type Classification Using Polarimetric SAR Data in the West Antarctic (31511)
Minso Shin1, Jungho Im1, Jinwoo Kim1, Sanggyun Lee2 and Miae Kim1, (1)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
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