C41C:
Modeling of the Cryosphere: Glaciers and Ice Sheets II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Sophie Nowicki, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Mauro A Werder, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Sophie Nowicki, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Christian Schoof, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Mauro A Werder, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
A Thin-Plate (Shallow Shelf) Treatment of Viscoelastic Ice-Shelf Flexure with Applications
Douglas R MacAyeal, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Olga V Sergienko, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Alison F Banwell, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Sebastian H R Rosier, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Gudmundur Hilmar Gudmundsson, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom
8:15 AM
 
Constraints on Subglacial Conditions from Seismicity
Brad Lipovsky1, Dilia C Olivo1 and Eric M Dunham2, (1)Stanford University, Geophysics, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
8:30 AM
 
An Improved Model for Tidally-Modulated Grounding Line Migration
Gudmundur Hilmar Gudmundsson, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom and Victor C Tsai, Caltech-Seismological Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Investigating the Flow Dynamics of Ice Shelves using Laboratory Experiments, Simple Theoretical Models and Geophysical Data Analysis
Martin Wearing1,2, Richard C A Hindmarsh1 and Grae Worster2, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
9:00 AM
 
OCEAN TIDAL INFLUENCE ON SUBGLACIAL HYDROLOGY AND ITS EFFECTS ON ICE SLIP
Timothy T Creyts, Columbia University-LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States
9:15 AM
 
Mass conservation in free-boundary ice dynamics models
Ed Bueler, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
9:30 AM
 
Proposed Design of the Third Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Exercise
Stephen L. Cornford1, Gudmundur Hilmar Gudmundsson2, Frank Pattyn3, Gaël Durand4, Daniel F Martin5 and Antony John Payne1, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom, (3)Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, (4)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
9:45 AM
 
Glacier response to climate perturbations: an accurate linear geometric model
Gerard Roe and Marcia B Baker, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
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