C24A:
Dust, Black Carbon, and Other Aerosols in the Cryosphere II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and John F Burkhart, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, John F Burkhart, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Mark Flanner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  McKenzie Skiles, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
C24A-01
 
Climate change and forest fires synergistically drive widespread melt events of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Kaitlin M Keegan, Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Mary R Albert, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Ian Baker, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
4:15 PM
C24A-02
 
Contribution of light-absorbing impurities in snow to Greenland albedo decrease
Marie Dumont1, Eric Brun2, Ghislain Picard3, Martine Michou2, Quentin Libois3, Jean-Robert Petit3, Samuel Morin1 and Beatrice Josse2, (1)CEN / Météo-France, Saint Martin D'Here, France, (2)Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (3)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
4:30 PM
C24A-03
 
Results from the Sunlight Absorption on the Greenland Ice Sheet Experiment (SAGE)
Chris Polashenski, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States; USACE-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK, United States, Jack E Dibb, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Mark Flanner, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Zoe Courville, CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States and Justin Chen, Hanover High School, Hanover, NH, United States
4:45 PM
C24A-04
 
The Role of Black Carbon from Wildfires in Accelerating Snow and Glacier Melt in Washington State
Susan Kaspari1, Ian Delaney1, Dan Pittenger1 and McKenzie Skiles2, (1)Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
5:00 PM
C24A-05
 
Modeling Impacts On and Feedbacks Among Surface Energy and Water Budgets Due to Aerosols-In-Snow Across North America
Catalina M Oaida1, Yongkang Xue1,2, Mian Chin3, Mark Flanner4, Fernando De Sales2 and Thomas H Painter5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:15 PM
C24A-06
 
Measurements of Light Absorbing Particles on Tropical South American Glaciers
Carl G Schmitt1, John All2, Joshua Peter Schwarz3, William P Arnott4, Julio Warthon5, Marcos Andrade6, Aaron J Celestian2, Dirk Hoffmann7, Rebecca J Cole8, Ellen Lapham9, Ulyana N Horodyskyj10, Karl D Froyd11 and Jin Liao12, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, NESL-MMM, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States, (3)NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (5)University San Antonio Abad, Physics, Cusco, Peru, (6)Higher University of San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, (7)Bolivian Mountain Institute, La Paz, Bolivia, (8)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (9)American Climber Science Program, Eldora, CO, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
5:30 PM
C24A-07
 
Black Carbon and Its Environmental Implications in the High Asia Atmosphere, Snow Cover, Lake, and Glaciers
Jing Ming, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
5:45 PM
C24A-08
 
Global mountain snow and ice loss driven by dust and black carbon radiative forcing
Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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