C34B:
On the Impact of Land Ice-Ocean Interactions on Greenland and Antarctica Ice Mass Balance II
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs: Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Ian G Fenty, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Eric J Rignot, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Ian G Fenty, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Ian G Fenty, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
4:00 PM
North Greenland's Ice Shelves and Ocean Warming
Andreas Muenchow, Univ Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Ursula Schauer, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, Laurence Padman, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, Humfrey Melling, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada and Helen A Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
4:15 PM
Ocean and Atmosphere Forcing of Larsen Ice Shelf Thinning
Paul Holland1, Alex Brisbourne1, Hugh F J Corr1, Daniel McGrath2, Kyle Purdon3, John Drysdale Paden4, Helen A Fricker5, Laurence Padman6, Fernando S Paolo7 and Andrew H Fleming1, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)Center For Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Earth & Space Research, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
4:30 PM
The Ocean’s Role in Outlet Glacier Variability: A Case Study from Uummannaq, Greenland
Dave Sutherland1, Ginny A Catania2, Timothy C Bartholomaus3, Jonathan D Nash4, Emily Shroyer4, Ryan T Walker5 and Leigh A Stearns6, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
5:15 PM
Effect of Atmospheric Forcing Resolution on Delivery of Ocean Heat to the Antarctic Floating Ice Shelves
John Michael Klinck II1, Michael S Dinniman1, David H Bromwich2 and David M Holland3, (1)Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)New York University, New York, NY, United States
5:30 PM
Present-day Circum-Antarctic Simulations using the POPSICLES Coupled Ice Sheet-Ocean Model
Xylar Asay-Davis1, Daniel F Martin2, Stephen F Price3, Mathew E Maltrud3 and William Collins2, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
