C21B:
Monitoring Changes in Polar Ice Sheets and Sea Ice Using Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing I Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Michael Studinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Michael Studinger, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jacqueline Richter-Menge, USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Recent Changes in Ices Mass Balance of the Amundsen Sea Sector
Tyler C Sutterley1, Isabella Velicogna2, Eric J Rignot1, Jeremie Mouginot1, Thomas Flament3, Michiel R van den Broeke4, Melchior van Wessem5 and Carleen Reijmer6, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (6)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Massive Perched Ice Layers in the Shallow Firn of Greenland's Lower Accumulation Area Inhibit Percolation and Enhance Runoff
Michael J MacFerrin1, Horst Machguth2, Charalampos Charalampidis3, Dirk van As4, Waleed Abdalati1 and Theodore A Scambos5, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Technological University of Denmark, Arctic Technology Centre, Lyngby, Denmark, (3)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Frederiksberg C, Denmark, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Bed Topography of Store Glacier and Fjord, Greenland from High-Resolution Gravity Data and Multi-Beam Echo Sounding
Lu An1, Eric J Rignot1,2, Atsuhiro Muto3, Mathieu Morlighem1 and Christopher Kemp4, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (4)TerraSond Limited, Seattle, WA, United States
 
A Digital Elevation Model of the Greenland Ice Sheet based on Envisat and CryoSat-2 Radar Altimetry
Joanna F Levinsen1, Benjamin Eaton Smith2, Louise Sandberg Sørensen1, Kirill Khvorostovsky3 and Rene Forsberg1, (1)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Polar Environmental Remote Sensing, Bergen, Norway
 
The unfolding instability of the remnant Larsen B Ice Shelf and its tributary glaciers
Ala Khazendar1, Christopher P Borstad2, Bernd Scheuchl3, Eric J Rignot3 and Helene Seroussi4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
16 Year Ice Velocity Record of the Larsen-B and –C Ice Shelves Based on Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Data.
Bernd Scheuchl1, Jeremie Mouginot1, Eric J Rignot1, Ala Khazendar2 and Christopher P Borstad3, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway
 
Satellite observation of winter season liquid meltwater storage within Greenland’s firn aquifer: 1992-2014
Julie Z Miller, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Richard R Forster, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, David G Long, Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT, United States, Theodore A Scambos, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht, Netherlands and Michiel R van den Broeke, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Sensing the bed-rock movement due to ice unloading from space using InSAR time-series
Wenliang Zhao1, Falk Amelung1, Timothy H Dixon2 and Shimon Wdowinski1, (1)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
 
Changes in Ice Flow Dynamics of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica and Impacts on Ice Mass Balance
Xin Li, Eric J Rignot, Jeremie Mouginot, Bernd Scheuchl and Lu An, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Remote Estimation of Greenland Ice Sheet Supraglacial River Discharge using GIS Modeling and WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery
Vena W Chu1, Laurence C Smith1, Kang Yang1, Colin J Gleason1, Asa K Rennermalm2, Lincoln H Pitcher1, Carl J Legleiter3 and Richard R Forster4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (4)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
20,000 Photons Under the Snow: Subsurface Scattering of Visible Laser Light and the Implications for Laser Altimeters
Adam Greeley, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Mark Shappirio, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, William B Cook, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Thorsten Markus, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Antarctic Ice Mass Balance from GRACE
Yvonne L Firing, Carmen Boening, David N Wiese, Michael M Watkins, Nicole Schlegel and Eric Y Larour, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
GRACE and ICESat Data for Estimation of Ice Sheet Surface Changes in LAS, East Antarctica
Huan Xie1, Xiaolei Ju1, Jun Liu1, Zhenxiong Gu1, Shijie Liu1, Yixiang Tian1, Lei Chen1, Yunzhong Shen1, Xiaohua Tong1, Bo Sun2 and Rongxing Li3, (1)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (2)Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China, (3)2570 Lane Road, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Temporal evolution of the snow density near the surface at Dome C on Antarctica Plateau
Nicolas Champollion1, Ghislain Picard2, Laurent Arnaud2, G Macelloni3 and Frédérique Rémy4, (1)International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland, (2)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (3)CNR Institute of Applied Physics, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, (4)CNRS - Legos, Toulouse, France
 
Firn and percolation conditions in the vicinity of recently formed high elevation supra-glacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet assessed by airborne radar
Santiago de la Peña, Ohio State University Main Campus, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Ian M Howat, OH St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Christine Chen, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Improved Bathymetry Resolution in the Ross Sea from Aerogravity and Magnetics: Examples from Operation IceBridge.
Kirsty J Tinto1, James R. Cochran2, Robin E Bell2, Kevin Charles3 and Bethany Burton4, (1)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Sander Geophysics Ltd, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)USGS Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States
 
Mapping Antarctic grounding lines from Cryosat-2
Bert Wouters, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Jonathan L Bamber, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
 
Novel Measurements and Techniques for Outlet Glacier Fjord Ice/Ocean Interactions
Alberto Behar1, Ian M Howat2, David M Holland3, Andreas P Ahlstrom4 and Signe Hillerup Larsen4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)OH St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)New York University, New York, NY, United States, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF SATURATED CREVASSES ALONG THE MARGINS OF JAKOBSHAVN ISBRÆ
Allison Ring and Derrick Julius Lampkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Recalibration of Coupled Optical/Thermal MODIS Infrared Surface Melt Magnitude Retrieval During the Spatially-Extensive 2012 Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Event
Christopher Charles Karmosky1, Derrick Julius Lampkin2, David B Reusch3 and John Reasons1, (1)University of Tennessee Martin, Department of Agriculture, Geosciences and Natural Resources, Martin, TN, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States
 
Recent results on the Greenland Aquifer from remote sensing and in situ measurements
Richard R Forster1, Julie Z Miller2, Clément Miège2, Ludovic Brucker3, Lora Koenig4, D. Kip Solomon5, Nicholas C Schmerr6, Evan W Burgess7 and Jason Box8, (1)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Derive Icebridge Sea-Ice Freeboard and Thickness Data through Full Waveform Analysis
Donghui Yi1, Jeremy P Harbeck2, Serdar Manizade3, Michelle A Hofton4, Nathan T Kurtz5 and Michael Studinger5, (1)SGT Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)ADNET Systems Inc. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)URS Corporation, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, United States, (4)Univ Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Icesat-2: The Next Generation Laser Altimeter Mission for Polar Research – an Update on Development Status and Science Data
Thorsten Markus1, Tom Neumann2 and Martino Anthony1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Arctic Sea ice thickness loss determined using subsurface, aircraft, and satellite observations
Ronald W Lindsay, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Axel J B Schweiger, University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Integrated Airborne and In-Situ Measurements over Land-Fast Ice near Barrow, AK.
Joan M Gardner1, John M Brozena1, Robert Liang1, David Ball2, Jacqueline Richter-Menge3, Keran J Claffey3, Andrei Abelev1, David A Hebert4 and Kate Jones5, (1)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (2)ITT Exelis Inc. Herndon, Herndon, VA, United States, (3)USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (5)Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program, Washington, DC, United States
 
Radar Interferometric Possibilities for Determining Sea Ice Thickness
Scott Hensley1, Benjamin Holt1, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok2, Jeff Steward2, Shadi Oveisgharan2, Delwyn Moller3, Andrew R Mahoney4 and Jim Reis5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Sierra Madre, CA, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Fugro Earthdata International, Frederic, MD, United States
 
Using Sea Ice Age as a Proxy for Sea Ice Thickness
Julienne Christine Stroeve1, Mark A Tschudi2 and James A Maslanik2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Monitoring Land-fast Sea Ice in the Western Antarctic Through Multi-sensor Data Fusion
Miae Kim, Jungho Im, Jin-woo Kim, Sanggyun Lee and Minso Shin, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
 
Estimation of Arctic Sea Ice Freeboard and Thickness Using CryoSat-2
Sanggyun Lee, Jungho Im, Jin-woo Kim, Miae Kim and Minso Shin, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
 
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