C31A
Processes and Properties of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice and Its Snow Cover II

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3005 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Chris Polashenski, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, Andrew R Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Julienne Christine Stroeve, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Chris Polashenski, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Chris Polashenski, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
08:00
C31A-01
Seasonal Changes of Arctic Sea Ice Physical Properties Observed During N-ICE2015: An Overview (Invited) (77361)
Sebastian Gerland, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
08:15
C31A-02
Platelet ice distribution in Antarctic sea ice and its implications for ocean - ice shelf interaction (Invited) (62088)
Pat Langhorne1, Ken G Hughes2, Alex J Gough1, Inga Smith1, Mike Williams3, Natalie J Robinson3, Craig L Stevens3, Wolfgang Rack4, Daniel Price4, Greg H Leonard1, Andrew R Mahoney5, Christian Haas6 and Tim G Haskell7, (1)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (5)Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (7)Callaghan Innovation, Wellington, New Zealand
08:30
C31A-03
Interactions Between Ice Thickness, Bottom Ice Algae, and Transmitted Spectral Irradiance in the Chukchi Sea (84750)
Alexandra E Arntsen, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
08:45
C31A-04
Representation of Sea Ice Processes in State of the Art Earth System Models. (Invited) (60106)
David A Bailey, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Marika M Holland, Natl Ctr Atompsheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
09:00
C31A-05
Remote Sensing of Snow on Sea Ice – What are we Missing? (Invited) (85880)
Christian Haas, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada and Sascha Willmes, University Trier, Environmental Meteorology, Trier, Germany
09:15
C31A-06
The impact of the snow cover on sea-ice thickness products retrieved by Ku-band radar altimeters (Invited) (62420)
Robert Ricker, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
09:30
C31A-07
Snow thickness retrieval using SMOS satellite data: Comparison with airborne IceBridge and buoy measurements (74846)
Nina Maaß, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
09:45
C31A-08
Snow in Large-Scale Sea Ice Models: State-of-the-Art and Way Forward (Invited) (69202)
Olivier Lecomte, UCL - ELI - TECLIM, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
 
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