C14B:
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Melody J Sandells, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom and Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Melody J Sandells, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Mary J. Brodzik, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
NASA IceBridge: Airborne surveys of the polar sea ice covers
Jacqueline Richter-Menge, USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States and Sinead L Farrell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
4:15 PM
 
The Seasonality of Antarctic Sea Ice Trends
Paul Holland, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
4:30 PM
 
IcePod: Imaging Ice-Ocean Process from Top to Bottom
Robin E Bell1, Nicholas Frearson2, Christopher J Zappa1, Kirsty J Tinto3, Indrani Das1, Tejendra Dhakal1, Christopher Bertinato1, LingLing Dong1, Scott Brown4 and Deborah A Le Bel1, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observat, Palisades, NY, United States
4:45 PM
 
Estimating Supraglacial Lake Depth with Landsat 8
Allen Pope, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Theodore A Scambos, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Mahsa S Moussavi, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States and Michael J Willis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
5:00 PM
 
Compositional Mapping of the Transantarctic Mountains Using Orbital Reflectance Data
Mark R Salvatore1, Spencer Niebuhr2, Paul J Morin2 and Simon Cox3, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, MN, United States, (3)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
5:15 PM
 
CryoSat-2: A new perspective on the Cryosphere
Andrew Shepherd1, Thomas Armitage2, Kate Briggs3, Thomas Flament4, Anna Elizabeth Hogg3, Malcolm McMillan1, Alan Muir2, Andrew Ridout2, Aud Sundal4, Rachel Tilling2 and Duncan Wingham2, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
5:30 PM
 
Spaceborne estimated long-term trends (1980s – 2013) of albedo and melting season length over the Greenland ice sheet and linkages to climate drivers
Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States; CUNY Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY, United States and Julienne Christine Stroeve, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
5:45 PM
 
Greenland Ice Sheet sediment dynamics with Landsat: Island-wide mapping shows sediment export controlled by ice discharge
Benjamin D Hudson1, Irina Overeem2, James P Syvitski3, Andreas Bech Mikkelsen4, Bent Hasholt4 and Mathieu Morlighem5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, (5)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
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