C43A:
Modeling of the Cryosphere II Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States and Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
Primary Conveners:  Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Adam H Winstral, USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States, Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States and Tobias Jonas, SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Ground Ice in the New Crrel Permafrost Tunnel
Mikhail Z Kanevskiy1, Yuri Shur1, James E Beget1, Nancy H Bigelow1, Kevin Bjella2, Margaret Cysewski2, Torre Jorgenson3 and Matthew Sturm1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)CRREL, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Developing a numerical model of ice wedge degradation and trough formation
Viacheslav Garayshin, Dmitry Nicolsky and Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Sensitivity of rock slope stability in relation to thermal regime – examples from Norway
Kristin Saeterdal Myhra, University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, Bernd Etzelmuller, University of Oslo, Department of geosciences, Oslo, Norway and Lars Harald Blikra, Aknes/Tafjord Beredskap IKS, Stranda, Norway; Sogn og Fjordane University College, Sogndal, Norway
 
Evaluation of Gridded Snow Water Equivalent Products in British Columbia, Canada
Andrew M Snauffer1, William W Hsieh1 and Alex J Cannon2, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
 
Reconciling Measured and Modeled Distributed Snowpack Temperatures and Subsurface Heat Fluxes
Hendrik Huwald1, Chad W Higgins2, Marc Diebold1, Michael Lehning1,3, Sian R Williams4, John Steven Selker2 and Marc B Parlange1,5, (1)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)SLF / WSL, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (4)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (5)University of British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Assessment of Hydrologic Impacts of Snowdrift in a Snow Dominated Watershed
Mukesh Kumar1, Xing Chen1, Bijan Seyednasrollah1, Adam H Winstral2, Michele Reba3 and Danny G Marks4, (1)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, (2)USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States, (3)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (4)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States
 
Snowmelt sensitivity to warmer temperatures: a field-validated model analysis, southern Sierra Nevada, California
Keith N Musselman, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Steven A Margulis, UCLA, Los Angeles, AP, United States
 
A Simple Framework for Quantifying Warming-based Snowpack Declines at the Landscape Scale
Christopher Tennant1, Benjamin T Crosby1, Sarah Godsey2, Robert Van Kirk3 and DeWayne Derryberry4, (1)Idaho State University, Geosciences, Pocatello, ID, United States, (2)Idaho State University, Geosciences, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (3)Humboldt State University, Mathematics, Arcata, CA, United States, (4)Idaho State University, Mathematics, Pocatello, ID, United States
 
Towards an Aassimilation of MODIS VIS/NIR reflectance into the detailed snow model SURFEX/ISBA-Crocus
Luc Charrois1,2, Emmanuel Cosme1, Marie Dumont2, Matthieu Lafaysse2, Samuel Morin2, Quentin Libois1, Ghislain Picard1 and Laurent Arnaud1, (1)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (2)CEN / Météo-France, Saint Martin D'Here, France
 
Comparison of Microphysics Schemes for Simulation of Snow Cover Fraction in the Sierra Nevada
Melissa Wrzesien, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Sarah B Kapnick, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Validation of snow cover simulated by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model using in-situ snow survey data in the Altai Mountains
Konosuke Sugiura1,2, Hideyuki Kitabata2 and Tsutomu Kadota2, (1)University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Estimating Longwave Atmospheric Emissivity in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Samaneh Ebrahimi and Shawn J Marshall, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Quantifying the change in equilibrium-line altitude during the Last Glacial Maximum in the Subtropical Andes using a mass-balance model
Lauren Vargo, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Joseph Galewsky, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Modeling Past and Future Surface Mass Balance of the Patagonian Icefields
Marius Schaefer, Austral University of Chile, Puerto Montt, Chile, Gino Casassa Sr., University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile, Horst Machguth, Technological University of Denmark, Arctic Technology Centre, Lyngby, Denmark and Mark Falvey, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
 
Modeling the surface mass balance and firn evolution of glaciers around Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
Ward Jan Jacobus van Pelt and Jack Kohler, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
 
Near-surface climate of the Antarctic Peninsula as simulated by a high-resolution regional atmospheric climate model
Melchior van Wessem, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, Carleen Reijmer, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands and Michiel R van den Broeke, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Changing Surface-Atmosphere Energy Exchange and Refreezing Capacity of the Lower Accumulation Area, West Greenland
Charalampos Charalampidis1,2, Dirk van As1, Horst Machguth1,3, Paul Smeets4, Michiel R van den Broeke4 and Jason E Box1, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Technological University of Denmark, Arctic Technology Centre, Lyngby, Denmark, (4)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Numerical model of meltwater retention and firn aquifer formation in Greenland Ice Sheet
Xiaojian Liu and Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Basal Melt Under the Interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Comparison of Models, Deep Ice Cores, and Radar Observations
Soroush Rezvanbehbahani1, Leigh A Stearns2 and Cornelis J van der Veen1,3, (1)CReSIS, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
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