C23B
Processes and Properties of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice and Its Snow Cover I Posters

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
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:  Julienne Christine Stroeve, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Andrew R Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Julienne Christine Stroeve, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Importance of Snow Distribution on Sea Ice (Invited) (59786)
Chris Polashenski1,2, Dmitry Divine3, Jennifer King3, Glen E Liston4, Marcel Nicolaus5 and Anja Rösel6, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)USACE-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK, United States, (3)Norwegian Polar Inst, Tromso, Norway, (4)Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (6)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
 
The Influence of Snow Depth Distribution and Surface Topography on Melt Pond Evolution (80509)
Melinda Webster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Timing and regional patterns of snowmelt on Antarctic sea ice from passive microwave satellite observations (60734)
Stefanie Arndt1, Marcel Nicolaus1, Sascha Willmes2 and Wolfgang Dierking1, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Wind-driven Snow Distribution Patterns Over an Antarctic Ice Floe (71982)
Ernesto Trujillo1,2, Katherine Colby Leonard1,2, Ted Maksym3 and Michael Lehning1,2, (1)École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Multi-Frequency Measured and Modeled Microwave Backscatter from a Highly Saline Snow Cover on Smooth First-Year Sea Ice (58751)
Vishnu Nandan1, Torsten Geldsetzer1, Tanvir Islam2, John Yackel1, Jagvijay Pratap Sing Gill1, Grant E Gunn3 and Claude R Duguay3, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
Relating C-band Microwave and Optical Satellite Observations as A Function of Snow Thickness on First-Year Sea Ice during the Winter to Summer Transition (63620)
Jiacheng Zheng, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Study of Snow-Atmosphere Interactions over an Antarctic Surface Using Large Eddy Simulations Coupled with a Lagrangian Stochastic Model (83544)
Francesco Comola1, Marco Giovanni Giometto1, Ernesto Trujillo1, Katherine Colby Leonard2, Ted Maksym3, Marc B Parlange1 and Michael Lehning1, (1)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos Dorf, Switzerland, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Model Representation of Last Decade Regional Changes of Arctic Snow on Sea ice (66841)
Karel Castro-Morales, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Robert Ricker, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Ruediger Gerdes, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven, Germany
 
Snow Climatology of Arctic Sea Ice: Comparison of Reanalysis and Climate Model Data with In Situ Measurements (82893)
Bajish Chandran Chevooruvalappil Chandran, Matthew Pittana and Christian Haas, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Are sea-ice driven increases of absorbed solar radiation in the Arctic offset by increasing sea ice extent in the Antarctic?: A bipolar comparison of satellite-derived estimates of absorbed solar radiation and sea ice area (75442)
Walter Meier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Abigail Ahlert, University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Boulder, CO, United States, Norman G Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Scott Stewart, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Sea Ice in the NCEP Climate Forecast System (78995)
Xingren Wu, IMSG, College Park, MD, United States and Robert W Grumbine, NWS, Lanham, MD, United States
 
Spatio-temporal variability in the freshwater input to the surface water of Southern Ocean (80095)
Prasanna Kannan Naidu, IISc, Bangalore, India
 
A glimpse beneath Antarctic sea ice: observation of platelet-layer thickness and ice-volume fraction with multi-frequency EM (79487)
Mario Hoppmann and Stefan Hendricks, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
 
Electromagnetic Mapping of the Thickness of the Sub-Ice Platelet Layer Under Landfast Sea Sce in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (81276)
Anne Bublitz1, Christian Haas1, Wolfgang Rack2 and Pat Langhorne3, (1)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (3)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
 
Influence of ice thickness and surface properties on light transmission through Arctic sea ice (59420)
Christian Katlein1, Stefanie Arndt1, Marcel Nicolaus1, Donald K Perovich2, Michael Jakuba3, Stefano Suman3, Stephen Elliott3, Louis L Whitcomb4, Christopher McFarland4, Rüdiger Gerdes1 and Antje Boetius1, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)USA CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Modeled Effects of Encapsulated Crude Oil on Light Transmission Through Sea Ice (86544)
Regina Carns, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Bonnie Light, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Kenmore, WA, United States
 
Mass Balance of Arctic Sea Ice North of Svalbard during N-ICE2015 (63327)
Anja Rösel, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
 
Arctic Sea Ice Basal Melt Onset Variability and Associated Ocean Surface Heating (71320)
Ryon Atticus Merrick, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States and Jennifer K Hutchings, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Surface and Ocean Fluxes from Ice Mass Balance Observations (80573)
Jacqueline Richter-Menge1 and Donald K Perovich1,2, (1)CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Constraining Aggregate-Scale Solar Energy Partitioning in Arctic Sea Ice Through Synthesis of Remote Sensing and Autonomous In-Situ Observations. (81711)
Nicholas Wright, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Winter Sea Ice Deformation Measured by Autonomous Buoys During the N-ICE2015 Cruise in the Arctic Ocean North of Svalbard (78240)
Polona Itkin, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
 
Pan-Arctic wintertime lead frequency and distribution from thermal infrared satellite imagery, 2003-2015 (78490)
Sascha Willmes and Guenther Heinemann, University Trier, Environmental Meteorology, Trier, Germany
 
Multiyear ice transport and small scale sea ice deformation near the Alaska coast measured by air-deployable Ice Trackers (81906)
Andrew R Mahoney, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Jeremy Kasper, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Peter Winsor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Effects of small-scale heterogeneities on the bulk mechanical properties of sea ice (82147)
Arnold Song, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Physical Characteristics and Geobiology of ‘Rotten’ Arctic Sea Ice (82158)
Carie Marie Frantz, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Theoretical Studies of Turbulent Transport Processes at Rough Boundaries with Application to the Interface Between Sea Ice and the Ocean (86259)
Srikanth Toppaladoddi1,2, Sauro Succi3 and John S. Wettlaufer1,2, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo, Rome, Italy
 
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