C32B:
Understanding Ice Loss in Coupled Glacier-Ocean Systems through Observations, Modeling, and Theory II

Session ID#: 4821

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Twila A Moon, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  David Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Co-conveners:  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
OSPA Liaison:  David Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 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:

C32B-01
Oceanic forcing of Helheim Glacier, Greenland: a 5 years synthesis (Invited) (2340)
Fiammetta Straneo, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Gordon S Hamilton, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, Leigh A Stearns, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States and James Holte, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
C32B-02
Dynamics of Glacier Calving at the Ungrounded Margin of Helheim Glacier, South-East Greenland (Invited) (2524)
Tavi Murray1, Nick Selmes2, Timothy James2, Stuart Edwards3, Ian Martin4, Tim O'Farrell5, Robin A Aspey5, Meredith Nettles6 and Ian Charles Rutt2, (1)Swansea University, Glaciology Group, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom, (2)Glaciology Group, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (4)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (5)University of Sheffield, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
C32B-03
Submarine Melting of Icebergs from Repeat High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models (24948)
Ellyn M Enderlin, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Gordon S Hamilton, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, Fiammetta Straneo, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States
C32B-04
Parameterising the Melting of Marine Glacier Termini with Buoyant Meltwater Plumes in a Stratified Ocean (10360)
Andrew Wells, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom and Samuel Magorrian, University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
C32B-05
Seismic Tremor Reveals Subglacial Discharge at Tidewater Glaciers (Invited) (4985)
Timothy C Bartholomaus, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Christopher F Larsen, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Shad O'Neel, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Michael Edwin West, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, AK, United States, Jacob I Walter, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Ginny A Catania, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Leigh A Stearns, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Ryan T Walker, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, United States, David Sutherland, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, 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
C32B-06
Basal Terraces on Melting Ice Shelves (9215)
Pierre Dutrieux1, Craig Stewart2, Adrian Jenkins1, Keith W Nicholls3, Hugh F J Corr1, Eric J Rignot4 and Konrad Steffen5, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
C32B-07
Annual to Decadal Scale Evolution of the Pine Island and Thwaites Grounding Lines in Response to Ocean Forcing (Invited) (2304)
Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States and Benjamin Eaton Smith, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
C32B-08
Amundsen Sea sector ice shelf thickness, melt rates, and inland response from annual high-resolution DEM mosaics (26521)
David E Shean1, Ian R Joughin2, Benjamin Eaton Smith3, Oleg Alexandrov4, Zachary Moratto4, Claire C Porter5 and Paul J Morin6, (1)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, United States, (3)Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Robotics Group, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Polar Geospatial Center, University of Minnesota, St Paul, United States, (6)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, MN, United States
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