C43F:
Glacier Monitoring from In Situ and Remotely Sensed Observations III

Session ID#: 4795

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Richard L Armstrong, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael Zemp, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Tobias Bolch, University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Primary Convener:  Bruce H Raup, NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Richard L Armstrong, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael Zemp, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Tobias Bolch, University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Tobias Bolch, University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0738 Ice [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

C43F-01
Modelling Glacier Mass Balance on Regional and Global Scales: How Precise Can the Models Be? (Invited) (2662)
Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Regine Hock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
C43F-02
Geodetic Glacier Mass Balance of Norway (Invited) (4657)
Liss Marie Andreassen, Hallgeir Elvehøy and Bjarne Kjøllmoen, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
C43F-03
Glacier Mass Loss in Alaska from Airborne Lidar Altimetry (6021)
Evan W Burgess1,2, Christopher F Larsen3, Anthony A Arendt4, Shad O'Neel2, Austin Johnson5, Robert W McNabb6, Lee S. Zirnheld5 and Christian Kienholz7, (1)Airborne Snow Observatories Inc., Mammoth, United States, (2)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (7)University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States
C43F-04
Potential and limitations of ICESat over small mountain glaciers (22069)
Desiree Treichler, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Andreas Kaeaeb, University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway
C43F-05
North Cascade Glacier Annual Mass Balance Record Analysis 1984-2013 (7094)
Mauri S Pelto, Nichols College, Dudley, MA, United States
C43F-06
Ten new long-term glaciological mass balance series for Swiss glaciers (12326)
Matthias Huss1,2, Laurie Dhulst2 and Andreas Bauder3, (1)University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
C43F-07
Glacier Change of China during the Last 50 Years As Revealed By Glacier Inventories (Invited) (8408)
Shiyin Liu1, Wanqin Guo2, Xiaojun Yao3, Junli Xu4, Donghui Shangguan5, Junfeng Wei6, Qiao Liu7, Xin Wang8 and Zongli Jiang8, (1)Institute of International Rivers and Eco-Security, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Lanzhou, China, (3)Geography and Environment College, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China, (4)Department of Surveying and Mapping, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, China, (5)Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Beijing, China, (6)Department of Geography, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China, (7)Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China, (8)Department of Geography, Hunan University of Science, and Technology, Xiangtan, China
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