C21D:
Dust, Black Carbon, and Other Aerosols in the Cryosphere II


Session ID#: 10893

Session Description:
Recent observation and modeling efforts have established the powerful region impacts on snow and ice cover from the deposition of light absorbing impurities such as mineral dust and carbonaceous particles.  The subsequent darkening of the snow surface and initiation of snow albedo feedbacks has implications for the global climate and water cycle. This session will focus on observations and modeling of the past, present, and future impacts of dust, carbonaceous particles, and other aerosols on snow and ice cover including transport and deposition processes, snowmelt, glacier/ice sheet mass balance, and atmospheric heating.
Primary Convener:  McKenzie Skiles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Mark Flanner, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and John Faulkner Burkhart, University of Oslo, Geosciences, Oslo, Norway; University of California, Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States
Chairs:  McKenzie Skiles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Thomas H Painter, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  McKenzie Skiles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0762 Mass balance 0764 Energy balance [CRYOSPHERE]
0792 Contaminants [CRYOSPHERE]
1863 Snow and ice [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Black carbon and other light-absorbing impurities in the Andes of Northern Chile (84947)
Penny M Rowe1, Raul Cordero1, Stephen G Warren2, Alec Pankow3, José Jorquera1, Michael Schrempf4, Sarah J Doherty5, Marta Cabellero1, Jorge F Carrasco6 and Steven Neshyba7, (1)Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States, (4)Institut für Meteorologie und Klimatologie, Hannover, Germany, (5)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (6)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (7)University Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States
Dust, Elemental Carbon and Other Impurities on Central Asian Glaciers: Origin and Radiative Forcing (Invited) (71682)
Julia Schmale1,2, Mark Flanner3, Shichang Kang4, Michael Sprenger5, Qianggong Zhang6,7, Yang Li6,7, J. Guo6,7 and Margit Schwikowski8, (1)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland, (2)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China, (7)Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China, (8)Paul Scherrer Institute, Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences, Villingen, Switzerland
Factors Controlling Black Carbon Deposition in Snow in the Arctic (76176)
Ling Qi, Univ of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Qinbin Li, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Dr. Cenlin He, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Yinrui Li, Peking University, School of Physics, Beijing, China
Hydrological response to Black Carbon deposition in seasonally snow covered catchments in Norway using two different atmospheric transport models (68461)
Felix Matt1, John Faulkner Burkhart1,2 and Joni-Pekka Pietikäinen3, (1)University of Oslo, Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of California, Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Hydrologic impacts of land cover disturbances in the Upper Colorado River Basin. (Invited) (59727)
Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Brian Buma, University of Alaska Southeast, Forest Ecosystem Ecology, Juneau, AK, United States, Joseph J Barsugli, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Dominik Schneider, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Carol Adele Wessman, University of Colorado at Boulder, EBIO, Boulder, CO, United States and Klaus Wolter, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
A review of measurement and modeling of Light-absorbing Particles in Snow and Ice and their climatic and hydrological impact (Invited) (75821)
Yun Qian1, Sarah J Doherty2, William K-M Lau3, Jing Ming4, Hailong Wang1, Stephen G Warren5, Dr. Teppei J Yasunari, PhD6, Rudong Zhang7 and Mark Flanner8, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, (3)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States, (4)National Climate Center, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, (5)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Hokkaido University, Arctic Research Center, Sapporo, Japan, (7)Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Antarctic black carbon tracks Southern Hemisphere climate throughout the Holocene (75155)
Monica M Arienzo, Desert Research Institute, Reno, United States and Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Science, Reno, United States
Fire impacts on the cryosphere (Invited) (70876)
Natalie Marie Kehrwald1, Piero Zennaro2, McKenzie Skiles3 and Carlo Barbante2, (1)USGS-GECSC, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, United States, (2)Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Venice, Italy, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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