C22B
Recent Discoveries and Challenges in Constraining Surface Mass Balance over Ice Sheets and Glaciers I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3007 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Indrani Das, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Lora Koenig, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Zoe Courville, USACE-CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States and Ellyn M Enderlin, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
Chairs:  Indrani Das, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Lora Koenig, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lora Koenig, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
10:20
Surface Roughness and Snow Accumulation in East Antarctica (Invited) (58512)
Ted A Scambos1, Patricia Linda Vornberger2, Jennifer A Bohlander3, Indrani Das4, Marin Klinger5, Allen Pope5, Jan Lenaerts6 and Mark A Fahnestock7, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Polar Science Consulting, Cary, NC, United States, (4)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
10:35
GlacierMIP – A Model Intercomparison of Global-scale Glacier Mass-balance Models and Projections (Invited) (60704)
Regine Hock1, Ben Marzeion2, Andrew Bliss1, Rianne H Giesen3, Yukiko Hirabayashi4, Matthias Huss5, Valentina Radic6 and Aimee Slangen7, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, (3)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (5)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (7)CSIRO Hobart, Hobart, TAS, Australia
10:50
Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise (Invited) (59952)
Alex S Gardner1, J. Graham Cogley2, Geir Moholdt3, Bert Wouters4 and David N Wiese1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, (3)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, (4)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
11:20
Monitoring South-West Greenland’s ice sheet melt with ambient seismic noise (66960)
Aurélien Mordret1, Thomas Dylan Mikesell2, Christopher Harig3, Brad Lipovsky4 and German A Prieto1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
11:35
Investigations of Liquid Water Retention in the Greenland Firn Aquifer (Invited) (58511)
Richard R Forster, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
11:50
First synchronous realistic simulations of Antarctic and Greenland SMB in a fully coupled climate model (63506)
Jan Lenaerts1, Leo van Kampenhout2, William H Lipscomb3, Andrew Gettelman4, Michiel van den Broeke5 and William Sacks4, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
12:05
The first long-term and continuous measurements of firn mass-balance and compaction on the Greenland Ice Sheet (85555)
Ian M Howat, OH St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Alberto Behar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Santiago de la Peña, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Darin Desilets, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, James M Crowell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Jekan Thangavelautham, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Gary Womack, Quaesta Instruments, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
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