C34A:
Modeling of the Cryosphere I

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Adam H Winstral, USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States
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:

4:00 PM
 
Alteration of Mean Streamflow and Evaporation Under Snow Loss
Wouter Berghuijs, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom, Ross A Woods, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom and Markus Hrachowitz, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 5612, Netherlands
4:15 PM
 
Examining spatial and temporal variability in snow water equivalent using a 27 year reanalysis: Kern River watershed, Sierra Nevada
Manuela Girotto1,2, Gonzalo Cortés3, Steven A Margulis3 and Michael T Durand4, (1)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
4:30 PM
 
Creation and Characterization of an Observation-based, Multi-dataset Snow Water Equivalent Product for Climate Model and Climate Forecast Validation
Lawrence Mudryk1, Christopher Derksen2, Ross Brown3 and Paul J Kushner1, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Environment Canada Toronto, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Environment Canada @ OURANOS Inc., Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
4:45 PM
 
Modelling Lake Ice and the Future of the Arctic Lake Ice Cover
Laura Brown, University of Toronto, Geography - UTM, Toronto, ON, Canada, Christopher Derksen, Environment Canada Toronto, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, Claude R Duguay, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Patrick Samuelsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
5:00 PM
 
Modeling the Effects of Climate Change on Permafrost in National Parks of Alaska: Will Permafrost Survive the Climate Warming of 21st Century?
Santosh K Panda1, Sergey S Marchenko1, Vladimir E Romanovsky1 and David K Swanson2, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)National Park Service Fairbanks, Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network, Fairbanks, AK, United States
5:15 PM
 
Towards Inclusion of Sub-grid Variability of Snow in Distributed Permafrost Models
Kjersti Gisnas, Sebastian Westermann, Thomas Schuler and Bernd Etzelmuller, University of Oslo, Department of geosciences, Oslo, Norway
5:30 PM
 
Summer Snowfall Impact on Greenland Ice Sheet SMB
Brice Noel, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, Willem Jan Van De Berg, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Erik van Meijgaard, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands and Michiel R van den Broeke, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
5:45 PM
 
Simulating the Climatic Mass Balance of Svalbard Glaciers from 2003 to 2014 Using a Coupled Atmosphere and Climatic Mass-Balance Model
Kjetil Schanke Aas1, Thorben Dunse2, Sarah Emily Collier3, Thomas Schuler1, Jack Kohler4 and Terje Berntsen1, (1)University of Oslo, Department of geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
 
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