C51A:
Improving Projections of Ice Sheet Change through Innovative Model Development and Ice Sheet Model/Climate Model Coupling I Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Eric Y Larour, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Andy Aschwanden, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Primary Conveners:  Eric Y Larour, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Andy Aschwanden, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Olivier Gagliardini, LGGE, Saint Martin D'Heres, France and Gudfinna Adalgeirsdottir, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
OSPA Liaisons:  Eric Y Larour, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Effects of Soluble Impurities on the Flow and Fabric of Polycrystalline Ice
Kevin Hammonds and Ian Baker, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Large-Ensemble Modeling of Past Variations in West Antarctic Embayments
David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States and Robert M Deconto, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Flow Is Plastic, It's Fantastic
Andy Aschwanden, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Risk of Sea Level Rise from Antarctic Ice Sheet Instability
Tamsin Edwards1, Catherine Ritz2, Gaël Durand2, Antony John Payne3, Vincent Peyaud2 and Richard C A Hindmarsh4, (1)Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (2)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (3)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom
 
Using Tranformation Group Priors and Maximum Relative Entropy for Bayesian Glaciological Inversions
Robert J Arthern1, Richard C A Hindmarsh2 and C. Rosie Williams1, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom
 
Modeling the grounding line dynamics of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica using full Stokes and lower order models
Hongju Yu1, Eric J Rignot1,2, Mathieu Morlighem1, Helene L Seroussi2 and Eric Y Larour2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Requirements for Energy-Conserving Two-Way Coupling of a GCM and Ice Model
Robert Fischer1, Sophie Nowicki2, Maxwell Kelley1 and Gavin A Schmidt1, (1)NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The effect of bed topography on modeled grounding line migration in a conditional simulation of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica
Michael S Waibel, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, Charles S Jackson, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Christina L Hulbe, University of Otago, School of Surveying (Dean), Dunedin, New Zealand, Daniel F Martin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and John A Goff, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Uncertainty quantification of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance via assessment of GRACE mascon solutions and variability of high-resolution surface mass balance forcing of an ice flow model
David N Wiese1, Nicole Schlegel2, Alex S Gardner1, Jason E Box3, Michiel R van den Broeke4 and Xavier Fettweis5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)University of Liège, Geography, Liège, Belgium
 
A ‘Geometric’ Downscaling Method for Coupling Dynamical Ice Sheet Models to GEOS-5
Bin Zhao1, Richard I Cullather2, Sophie Nowicki3 and Max Suarez1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC Code 610.1, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Role of Model Initialisation for Projections of 21st Century Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Loss
Gudfinna Adalgeirsdottir1, Andy Aschwanden2, Constantine Khroulev3, Fredrik Boberg4, Ruth Mottram4 and Jens H Christensen4, (1)University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen East, Denmark
 
Modelling the Climate - Greenland Ice Sheet Interaction in the Coupled Ice-sheet/Climate Model EC-EARTH – PISM
Shuting Yang1, Marianne S. Madsen1, Christian B Rodehacke1, Synne H. Svendsen1 and Gudfinna Adalgeirsdottir2, (1)Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
 
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