C32B:
Understanding Ice Loss in Coupled Glacier-Ocean Systems through Observations, Modeling, and Theory II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Twila A Moon, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Co-conveners:  Carlos F Moffat, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Oceanic forcing of Helheim Glacier, Greenland: a 5 years synthesis
Fiammetta Straneo, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Dave Sutherland, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, Gordon S Hamilton, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, Leigh A Stearns, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States and James Holte, WHOI, Woods Holte, MA, United States
10:35 AM
 
Dynamics of Glacier Calving at the Ungrounded Margin of Helheim Glacier, South-East Greenland
Tavi Murray1, Nick Selmes1, Timothy James1, Stuart Edwards2, Ian Martin2, Tim O'Farrell3, Robin A Aspey3, Meredith Nettles4 and Ian Charles Rutt1, (1)Glaciology Group, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (3)University of Sheffield, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (4)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
10:50 AM
 
Submarine Melting of Icebergs from Repeat High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models
Ellyn M Enderlin1, Gordon S Hamilton2, Fiammetta Straneo3 and Claudia Cenedese3, (1)Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (2)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (3)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Parameterising the Melting of Marine Glacier Termini with Buoyant Meltwater Plumes in a Stratified Ocean
Andrew Wells and Samuel Magorrian, University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
11:20 AM
 
Seismic Tremor Reveals Subglacial Discharge at Tidewater Glaciers
Timothy C Bartholomaus1, Christopher F Larsen2, Shad O'Neel3, Michael Edwin West4, Jason M Amundson5, Jacob I Walter1, Ginny A Catania1, Leigh A Stearns6, Ryan T Walker7, Dave Sutherland8, Emily Shroyer9 and Jonathan D Nash9, (1)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States, (6)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (7)University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (9)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States
11:35 AM
 
Basal Terraces on Melting Ice Shelves
Pierre Dutrieux1, Craig Stewart2, Adrian Jenkins1, Keith W Nicholls3, Hugh F J Corr3, Eric J Rignot4 and Konrad Steffen5, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
11:50 AM
 
Annual to Decadal Scale Evolution of the Pine Island and Thwaites Grounding Lines in Response to Ocean Forcing
Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Benjamin Eaton Smith, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
12:05 PM
 
Amundsen Sea sector ice shelf thickness, melt rates, and inland response from annual high-resolution DEM mosaics
David E Shean1, Ian R Joughin1, Benjamin Eaton Smith1, Oleg Alexandrov2, Zachary Moratto2, Claire C Porter3 and Paul J Morin3, (1)Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Robotics Group, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Polar Geospatial Center, St Paul, MN, United States
 
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