Chairs: Melody J Sandells, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom and Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners: Melody J Sandells, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Mary J. Brodzik, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Distinguishing Ice from Snow for Melt Modeling Using Daily Observations from MODIS
Karl Rittger1,2, Mary J. Brodzik1,2, Adina Racoviteanu1, Andrew P Barrett1,2, Siri-Jodha S Khalsa1,2, Thomas H Painter3, Richard L Armstrong1,2 and Annie Bryant Burgess4, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Using TerraSAR-X and hyperspectral airborne data to monitor surface deformation and physical properties of the Barrow permafrost landscape, Alask
Mahmud Haghshenas-Haghighi1, Mahdi Motagh2, Birgit Heim3, Torsten Sachs2, Katrin Kohnert1 and Dmitry A Streletskiy4, (1)Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (4)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
Comparison of Near−Surface Air Temperatures from Multiple AWS and MODIS Ice−Surface Temperatures at Summit, Greenland (2008−2014)
Christopher A. Shuman1, Dorothy K Hall2, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo3, Thomas K Mefford4 and Michael J. Schnaubelt1, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NOAA / ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Simulation and Analysis of Icesat-2 Point Clouds
John P Kerekes1, Scott D Brown1, Jiashu Zhang1, Jie Yang1, Beata M Csatho2 and Anton F Schenk2, (1)Rochester Institute of Technol, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
The use of airborne radar reflectometry to establish snow/firn density distribution on Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic: A path to understanding complex heterogeneous internal layering patterns
Anja Rutishauser1, Cyril Grima2, Martin J Sharp1, Donald D Blankenship3, Duncan A Young3 and Julian A. Dowdeswell4, (1)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Object-Based Aerial Photos Analysis for Arctic Sea Ice Melt Ponds and Pressure Ridges
Xin Miao, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, United States, Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, Changqing Ke, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Ruibo Lei, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
Determining Crevasse Sequences in Surging Glaciers using Neural Network Classification from Remotely Sensed Images of Bering Glacier, AK
Jessica Bobeck1, Ute C Herzfeld2,3, Lukas Goetz-Weiss2 and Griffin Hale4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geography, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Sierra Nevada Corporation, Louisville, CO, United States
Buried CO2 Ice traces in South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars detected by radar sounder
Luigi Castaldo1, Daniel Mège1,2, Roberto Orosei3 and Antoine Séjourné4, (1)Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Science, Wrocław, Poland, (2)Université de Nantes, Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geodynamique, Nantes, France, (3)Istituto di Radioastronomia, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Bologna, Italy, (4)Université Paris-Sud 11, Départment Sciences de la Terre, Orsay, France
Airborne geophysical survey of ice caps in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Canada
Steven John Palmer1, Julian A. Dowdeswell2, Poul Christoffersen3, Toby J Benham3, Duncan A Young4, Donald D Blankenship4, Tom Richter4, Gregory Ng4, Cyril Grima4, Feras Habbal4, Martin J Sharp5 and Anja Rutishauser5, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, (2)Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Investigating the Cause of the 2012 Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland Using High Resolution Observations of the Glacier Terminus
Ryan Cassotto, University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States; Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, Mark A Fahnestock, Univ. of Alaska/GI, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Margaret S Boettcher, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States and Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Advanced Ice Velocity Mapping Using Landsat 8
Theodore A Scambos1, Marin J Klinger1, Mark A Fahnestock2 and Terence M Haran1, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Monitoring Glacier change at the Academy of Sciences Icecap, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic
Garth Ornelas1, Michael J Willis2,3, Matthew E. Pritchard3 and Andrew K Melkonian3, (1)Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States
Seasonal evolution of melt pond characteristics derived from Worldview and Quickbird imagery
Carolyn Stwertka1, Chris Polashenski1,2, Elias J Deeb3, Donald K Perovich3 and Alexandra E Arntsen1, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)USACE-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK, United States, (3)CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States
Summer snowmelt patterns in the South Shetlands using TerraSAR-X imagery
Carla Mora1, Juan Javier Jimenez2, Joao Catalao Fernades1, Alice Ferreira1, Ana David1, Miguel Ramos3 and Goncalo Vieira1, (1)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, (2)University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, (3)Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain