C31B
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3007 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Thomas L Mote, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Matt Nolan, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Melody J Sandells, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and Melody J Sandells, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Melody J Sandells, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
08:00
Converting Snow Depth to SWE: The Fusion of Simulated Data with Remote Sensing Retrievals and the Airborne Snow Observatory (Invited) (61127)
Kat Bormann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and The Airborne Snow Observatory Team
08:15
Rain-on-snow and ice layer formation detection using passive microwave radiometry: An arctic perspective (62143)
Alexandre Langlois, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
08:45
The present and future of using InSAR to estimate SWE (Invited) (83681)
Elias J Deeb, CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States; U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States
09:00
Snowpack Microstructure Characterization and Partial Coherent and Fully Coherent Forward Scattering Models in Microwave Remote Sensing (Invited) (73019)
Shurun Tan1, Leung Tsang1, Xiaolan Xu2 and Kung-Hau Ding3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, United States
09:15
Are existing snow microwave emission models so different ? (Invited) (73540)
Ghislain Picard, UJF/LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Grenoble, France
09:30
New advances in remote sensing of Arctic sea ice thickness from Operation IceBridge and beyond (Invited) (73494)
Nathan T Kurtz1, Michael Studinger1, John G Sonntag2, James Yungel2, Donghui Yi3, Jeremy Harbeck4, Vincent Onana1 and Alek Petty5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)AECOM, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
09:45
Ground-based LiDAR integration with avalanche control operations: target planning and assessment of control effectiveness (Invited) (82864)
Jeffrey S Deems, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Adam LeWinter, US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, Peter J Gadomski, US Army Cold Regions, Hanover, NH, United States and David C Finnegan, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States
 
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