C43F:
Glacier Monitoring from In Situ and Remotely Sensed Observations III

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Richard L Armstrong1, Michael Zemp2 and Tobias Bolch2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States(2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Conveners:  Bruce H Raup, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Richard L Armstrong1, Michael Zemp2 and Tobias Bolch2, (1)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States(2)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
OSPA Liaisons:  Tobias Bolch, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Modelling Glacier Mass Balance on Regional and Global Scales: How Precise Can the Models Be?
Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Regine Hock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
2:00 PM
 
Geodetic Glacier Mass Balance of Norway
Liss Marie Andreassen, Hallgeir Elvehøy and Bjarne Kjøllmoen, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
2:20 PM
 
Glacier Mass Loss in Alaska from Airborne Lidar Altimetry
Evan W Burgess1,2, Christopher F Larsen1, Anthony A Arendt1, Shad Oneel2, Austin Johnson1, Robert W McNabb1, Lee S. Zirnheld1 and Christian Kienholz1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
2:35 PM
 
Potential and limitations of ICESat over small mountain glaciers
Desiree Treichler and Andreas Kaeaeb, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2:50 PM
 
North Cascade Glacier Annual Mass Balance Record Analysis 1984-2013
Mauri S Pelto, Nichols College, Dudley, MA, United States
3:05 PM
 
Ten new long-term glaciological mass balance series for Swiss glaciers
Matthias Huss1,2, Laurie Dhulst2 and Andreas Bauder2, (1)University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
3:20 PM
 
Glacier Change of China during the Last 50 Years As Revealed By Glacier Inventories
Shiyin Liu1, Wanqin Guo2, Xiaojun Yao3, Junli Xu2, Donghui Shangguan2, Junfeng Wei2, Qiao Liu4, Xin Wang5 and Zongli Jiang5, (1)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, (3)Geography and Environment College, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China, (4)IMHE Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China, (5)Department of Geography, Hunan University of Science, and Technology, Xiangtan, China
 
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