Chairs: Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Primary Convener: Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Co-conveners: Adam H Winstral, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison: Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States
Ground Ice in the New Crrel Permafrost Tunnel (9730)
Mikhail Z Kanevskiy1, Yuri Shur2, James E Beget2, Nancy H Bigelow2, Kevin Bjella3, Margaret Cysewski Rudolf3, Torre Jorgenson4 and Matthew Sturm5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)CRREL, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Developing a numerical model of ice wedge degradation and trough formation (26019)
Viacheslav Garayshin, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Dmitry Nicolsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Assessment of Hydrologic Impacts of Snowdrift in a Snow Dominated Watershed (27799)
Mukesh Kumar1, Xing Chen1, Bijan Seyednasrollah2, Adam H Winstral3, Michele L Reba4 and Danny G Marks5, (1)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (4)USDA, ARS, Delta Water Management Research Unit, Jonesboro, AR, United States, (5)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
Snowmelt sensitivity to warmer temperatures: a field-validated model analysis, southern Sierra Nevada, California (27695)
Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography, Boulder, United States, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States and Steven A Margulis, UCLA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
A Simple Framework for Quantifying Warming-based Snowpack Declines at the Landscape Scale (18022)
Christopher Tennant, Idaho State University, Geoghraphy, Pocatello, ID, United States, Benjamin T Crosby, Idaho State University, Geosciences, Pocatello, ID, United States, Sarah Godsey, Idaho State University, Geosciences, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, Robert Van Kirk, Humboldt State University, Mathematics, Arcata, CA, United States and DeWayne Derryberry, Idaho State University, Mathematics, Pocatello, ID, United States
Comparison of Microphysics Schemes for Simulation of Snow Cover Fraction in the Sierra Nevada (22155)
Melissa Wrzesien, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, United States, Michael T Durand, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Changing Surface-Atmosphere Energy Exchange and Refreezing Capacity of the Lower Accumulation Area, West Greenland (17036)
Charalampos Charalampidis1,2, Dirk van As3, Horst Machguth4,5, Paul Smeets6, Michiel R van den Broeke7 and Jason E Box3, (1)Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany, (2)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (4)Technological University of Denmark, Arctic Technology Centre, Lyngby, Denmark, (5)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (7)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Basal Melt Under the Interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Comparison of Models, Deep Ice Cores, and Radar Observations (11713)
Soroush Rezvanbehbahani, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, Leigh A Stearns, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Cornelis Jakob Van der Veen, University of Kansas, Department of Geography, Lawrence, KS, United States; University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, United States