C11E:
Global Climate Change and Cryospheric Systems I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Laura Levy, Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark
Primary Conveners:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Co-conveners:  Neil F Glasser, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, Jason P Briner, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States and Laura Levy, Aarhus University, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus, Denmark
OSPA Liaisons:  Jason P Briner, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Global glacier mass balance modeling – Where to go from here?
Regine Hock1, Andrew Bliss1, Matthias Huss2 and Valentina Radic3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
8:15 AM
 
Fingerprints of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Sophie Nowicki, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
8:30 AM
 
New Insights from 10-Be on the Deglaciation of Greenland: Comparison of a Continent-Wide Database with Climatic Forcings and Model Results
Gaylen Sinclair1, Anders E Carlson1, Benoit Lecavalier2, Glenn A. Milne3 and Aspen Mathias1, (1)COAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada, (3)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
8:45 AM
 
Modest response of the southern Greenland ice sheet to the Holocene Thermal Maximum
Nicolaj K Larsen1, Kurt Henrik Kjaer2, Benoit Lecavalier3, Anders A Bjork2, Philippe Huybrechts4, Kristian K Kjeldsen2, Karen-Luise Knudsen1, Jesper Olsen1 and Bent Odggard1, (1)Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, (2)Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada, (4)Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
9:00 AM
 
On the Influence of the NAO on Outlet Glacier Stability in SE Greenland during the Past 100 Years
Camilla S Andresen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
9:15 AM
 
Seasonal and Interannual Glacier Terminus Fluctuations in Northwest Greenland and Links to Sea Ice and Velocity Trends during the 21st Century
Twila A Moon1,2, Ian R Joughin3 and Benjamin Eaton Smith2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
9:30 AM
 
Global Climate Change: Valuable Insights from Concordant and Discordant Ice Core Histories
Ellen Mosley-Thompson1,2, Lonnie G Thompson1,3, Stacy E Porter1, Bradley P Goodwin1 and Aaron B Wilson1, (1)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
9:45 AM
 
Himalayan glaciers: understanding contrasting patterns of glacier behavior using multi-temporal satellite imagery
Adina Racoviteanu, Research Consultant, University of Colorado et Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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