C13F:
Understanding Ice Sheet Surface Melt I Posters
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Session ID#: 26064
Session Description:
Runoff from Greenland surface melt contributes a large fraction of the ice sheet’s ongoing mass loss, and surface melt-induced processes such as hydrofracture and ice cliff failure have the potential to lead to additional large future ice losses from the Antarctic ice sheet. Our understanding of the factors driving surface melt at both poles, as well as how surface melt impacts ice dynamics, is limited by a short observation period, high spatial and temporal variability, and a complex set of dynamics between the atmosphere, ocean, and ice sheet. Unraveling these complex relationships is necessary for advancing our ability to understand ice sheet mass balance and predict its future impact on sea level rise. Abstracts are requested for a session on improving our understanding of ice sheet surface melt variability and dynamics, including how surface melt and surface melt-induced processes are observed, quantified, and modeled in the past, present and future.
Primary Convener: April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners: John J Cassano, University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Sarah B Das, WHOI, Woods Hole, United States and Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
Chairs: Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States and April M Melvin, American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Andrew Graham Williamson1, Ian Willis1, Neil S Arnold1 and Alison F Banwell2, (1)University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Northumbria University, School of Geography and Natural Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Dirk van As1, Bent Hasholt2, Andreas Bech Mikkelsen2, Morten Holtegaard Nielsen3, Jason Box4, Lillemor Claesson Liljedahl5, Katrin Lindback6 and Lincoln H H Pitcher7, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, (2)University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)Tarragona, Spain, (4)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (5)SKB Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management, Stockholm, Sweden, (6)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Marco Tedesco, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, Patrick M Alexander, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, David F. Porter, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Xavier Fettweis, University of Liège, Département de Géographie, Liège, Belgium, Scott B Luthcke, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Thomas L Mote, Univ Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Asa Kristina Rennermalm, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States and Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Tao He, Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China, Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States and Yi Zhang, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
Josh A Crozier1, Leif Karlstrom1 and Kang Yang2, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Nanjing University, Geography, Nanjing, China
Colin R Meyer, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom
Giovanni Corti1,2, Regine Hock3, Federico Covi4, Takao Kameda5, Jonathan Kingslake6, Sasha Z Leidman7, Clément Miège8, Steve Munsell9, Asa K Rennermalm10 and Marco Tedesco6, (1)Reed College, Portland, OR, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of OSLO, Oslo, Norway, (4)Geophysical Institute Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (5)Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Geography, New Brunswick, United States, (8)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, (9)Prescott College, Prescott, AZ, United States, (10)Rutgers University, Geography, New Brunswick, United States
Zhaoxin Ban, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Kang Yang, Nanjing University, Geography, Nanjing, China, Lincoln H H Pitcher, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Laurence C Smith, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, United States
Jonathan Ryan, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23, United Kingdom; University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alun Hubbard II, Aberystwyth University, Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom; CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Geoscience, Tromsø, Norway, Tristram D Irvine-Fynn, Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, SY23, United Kingdom, Samuel Huckerby Doyle, Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, Joseph Cook, University of Sheffield, School of Geography, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom, Marek Stibal, Charles University, Department of Ecology, Prague, Czech Republic, Laurence C Smith, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Providence, United States and Jason E Box, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark
Michael J MacFerrin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Horst Machguth, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Dirk van As, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, Charalampos Charalampidis, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany, Achim Heilig, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, Baptiste Vandecrux, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, C Max Stevens, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Waleed Abdalati, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
