Primary Conveners: Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States
Conveners: Stephen G Warren, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Mark Flanner, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Julienne Christine Stroeve, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs: Marco Tedesco, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and Stephen G Warren, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Julienne Christine Stroeve, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Greenland ice sheet albedo variability and feedback: 2000-2015 (82972)
Jason E Box1, Dirk van As1, Robert S Fausto1, Ruth Mottram2, Peter P Langen2 and Konrad Steffen3, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen East, Denmark, (3)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Evaluation of the SMAP model calculated snow albedo at the SIGMA-A site, northwest Greenland, during the 2012 record surface melt event (77845)
Masashi Niwano1, Teruo Aoki2, Sumito Matoba3, Satoru Yamaguchi4, Tomonori Tanikawa5, Katsuyuki Kuchiki2 and Hideaki Motoyama6, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (4)Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Nagaoka, Japan, (5)JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
An Iterative, Geometric, Tilt Correction Method for Radiation and Albedo Observed by Automatic Weather Stations on Snow-Covered Surfaces: Application to Greenland (65011)
Wenshan Wang1, Charles S Zender1, Dirk van As2, Paul Smeets3 and Michiel van den Broeke4, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Light Absorption in Arctic Sea Ice – Black Carbon vs Chlorophyll (63583)
Oluwaseun O Ogunro1, Oliver W Wingenter1, Scott Elliott2, Elizabeth C Hunke3, Mark Flanner4, Hailong Wang5 and Manvendra Krishna Dubey2, (1)New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Near-Record Early Snowmelt and Signs of Environmental Change in Barrow, Alaska (65815)
Diane Stanitski1, Christopher Cox2, Colm Sweeney2,3, George Divoky4, Craig George5 and Robert Stone6, (1)NOAA, ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA/ESRL GMD, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Friends of Cooper Island, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)North Slope Borough, Barrow, AK, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, (Retired), Boulder, CO, United States
Impacts of Synoptic Weather Patterns on Snow Albedo at Sites in New England (74952)
Alden C Adolph1, Mary R Albert1, James Lazarcik2, Jack E Dibb2, Jacqueline Amante2 and Andrea N Price1, (1)Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States