C23C:
Understanding Ice Loss in Coupled Glacier-Ocean Systems through Observations, Modeling, and Theory I Posters

Session ID#: 2221

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Carlos F Moffat, University of Delaware, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, Newark, DE, United States and Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, AK, United States
Primary Convener:  Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Co-Convener:  Twila A Moon, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, AK, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0728 Ice shelves [CRYOSPHERE]
4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Enhanced Climate Changes at High Latitude

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Oceanic Mixing Processes in Disko Bay-Ilulissat Icefjord System: Can We Quantify the Heat Loss from the Atlantic Water  Layer? (3546)
Georges Djoumna, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and David M Holland, New York University, New York, NY, United States
 
Controls on Helheim Glacier calving rates from 2001-2014 (3708)
Leigh A Stearns1, Steven C Foga2, Gordon S Hamilton3, Fiammetta Straneo4, David Sutherland5, Cornelis Jakob Van der Veen2, Marilena Oltmanns4 and Kristin M Schild6, (1)University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (6)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
 
Numerical Simulation and Sensitivity Analysis of Subglacial Meltwater Plumes: Implications for Ocean-Glacier Coupling in Rink Isbrae, West Greenland (4257)
Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San José State University, Moss Landing, United States, Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Emily Shroyer, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, United States and Jonathan D Nash, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Estimation of Ice Shelf Melt Rate in the Presence of a Thermohaline Staircase (7310)
Satoshi Kimura, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan, Keith W Nicholls, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Emily Venables, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Analyzing Trends in Iceberg Coverage in Disko Bay, West Greenland Using Optical Satellite Imagery (8948)
Jessica Scheick1, Gordon S Hamilton2, M Brady Butler2, Jakob Abermann3 and Eva Mätzler3, (1)University of Maine, Orono, United States, (2)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (3)Asiaq, Greenland Survey, Nuuk, Greenland
 
Interpreting Terminus Fluctuations at Helheim Glacier, Southeast Greenland, through Modeling and Observations (10666)
Laura M Kehrl1, Ian R Joughin1 and Daniel Shapero2, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, United States
 
Modeling Ocean-Forced Changes in Smith Glacier (10696)
David Lilien, Ian R Joughin and Benjamin Eaton Smith, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Spatial Variability in Surface Elevation Changes of Central-West Greenland Outlet Glaciers (11465)
Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ginny A Catania, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Kurt Henrik Kjaer, Natural History Museum of Denmark, København K, Denmark, Niels J Korsgaard, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Leigh A Stearns, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Jonathan D Nash, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, Emily Shroyer, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, United States, Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Ryan T Walker, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, United States
 
Pan-Arctic Controls on the Rapid Retreat of Marine-Terminating Arctic Outlet Glaciers (16864)
Rachel Carr, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Chris Stokes, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom and Andreas Vieli, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Glacier meltwater transport and mixing in Jorge Montt fjord, Patagonia (17006)
Carlos F Moffat1,2, Francisca Bown3,4 and Claudio Iturra2, (1)University of California, Santa Cruz, Institute for Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)COPAS Sur-Austral Program, Department of Oceanography, U. of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, (3)CECS-Center for Scientific Studies, Valdvia, Chile, (4)University of Concepcion, Department of Oceanography, Concepcion, Chile
 
Ocean Properties and Submarine Melt of Ice Shelves in a High-Arctic Fiord (Milne Fiord) (17417)
Andrew Hamilton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Derek Mueller, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Bernard Laval, University of British Columbia, Department of Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Heat and Ice in Sermilik Fjord: Novel Observational Techniques Using PIES (19735)
Magdalena Andres, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Woods Hole, United States, Fiammetta Straneo, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and David Sutherland, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Temporal and Spatial Variation in Surface Velocity and Basal Friction at Upernavik Isstrøm, Northwest Greenland (19741)
Signe Hillerup Larsen1,2, Shfaqat Abbas Khan3, Eric Y Larour4, Ian R Joughin5, Andreas P Ahlstrom6, Christine S. Hvidberg2 and Signe Bech Andersen1, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (2)Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Center for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Univ Washington, Seattle, United States, (6)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
How and when can submarine melting be inferred from estimates of ocean heat transport? (22240)
Rebecca H Jackson, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States; Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Fiammetta Straneo, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
 
Dynamic Activation of a Marine-terminating Arctic Ice Cap (28923)
Malcolm McMillan1, Andrew Shepherd2, Noel Gourmelen3, Amaury Dehecq4, Amber Leeson5, Andrew Ridout6, Thomas Flament7, Anna Hogg8, Lin Gilbert6, Toby J Benham9, Michiel R van den Broeke10, Julian A. Dowdeswell11, Xavier Fettweis12 and Tazio Strozzi13, (1)Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (4)University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, Grenoble, France, (5)University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (6)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (7)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (8)CPOM, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (9)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (10)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (11)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (12)University of Liège, Département de Géographie, Liège, Belgium, (13)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland
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