C51G:
Glacier Response to Climate Change I

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Session ID#: 17557

Session Description:
This session focuses on observational, theoretical and modeling studies that advance the understanding and projection of glacier mass changes to recent and future climate change. We encourage studies on all spatial scales from individual glaciers to mountain-scale glacier systems to the global-scale. The range of topics includes, but is not limited to, processes and modeling of all components of a glacier’s mass balance, as well as the mass and energy exchange at the glacier-atmosphere boundary, new approaches to model the geometric adjustments of a glacier due to altered mass balance, integration of glaciers into climate models, approaches to downscale climate data for use in mass-balance models, and simulation or projection of glacier changes through time.
Primary Convener:  Regine Hock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
Conveners:  Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Andrew Mackintosh, Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
Chairs:  Andrew Mackintosh, Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, Regine Hock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States and Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0762 Mass balance 0764 Energy balance [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Extension of the USGS Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System to Simulate Hydrology in Large Glacierized Basins (142385)
Ashley Van Beusekom, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Canmore, Canada and Roland Joseph Viger, US Geological Survey, Water Science Center, Baltimore, United States
Unraveling glacier change signals in high-mountain regions (Invited) (191334)
Emily Collier, Thomas Moelg and Tobias Sauter, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Climate System Research Group, Institute of Geography, Erlangen, Germany
Recent Advances in our Understanding of Debris-covered Glacier Response to Climate (Invited) (166539)
Francesca Pellicciotti, Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Simulating the response of debris-covered, lake-calving glaciers to climate warming; Southern Alps, New Zealand. (165966)
Brian Anderson, Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, Andrew Mackintosh, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Christian Zammit, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Auckland, New Zealand and Abha Sood, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Modeling the Long-Term Evolution of Supraglacial Ice Cliffs on Himalayan Debris-Covered Glaciers (171158)
Pascal Buri, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, Evan S Miles, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Jakob F Steiner, Utrecht University, Department of Geopgraphy, Utrecht, Netherlands, Silvan Ragettli, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Francesca Pellicciotti, Northumbria University, Department of Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Examining model hierarchies of glacier response to climate (184611)
John Erich Christian, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Michelle R Koutnik, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States and Gerard Roe, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
Forecasting Glacier Evolution and Hindcasting Paleoclimates In Light of Mass Balance Nonlinearities (190515)
Andrew Malone, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, United States, Alice M Doughty, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Douglas R MacAyeal, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
A model to constrain 21st Century sea level rise from tidewater glaciers (131676)
Lizz Ultee, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United States and Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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