C12A:
Birth, Life, and Death of Icebergs I

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Session ID#: 34012

Session Description:
Under global warming, mass loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets is expected to increase. This may be accompanied by an increased discharge of icebergs into the oceans. For this session we solicit contributions that address observations, theory, and modeling of the mechanisms that control the detachment of icebergs from ice sheets and glaciers, along with the processes that control the fate and evolution of icebergs until complete melt. This includes iceberg interactions with the ocean, the atmosphere, sea ice, and topography, the influence of icebergs on local ecosystems and biogeochemical processes, and the representation of calving and disintegration of icebergs in models of varying complexity with local to global domains. We invite submissions focusing on past, present, and projected future climates in both polar regions.
Primary Convener:  Till J.W. Wagner, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ian Eisenman, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Torge Martin, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Chairs:  Till J.W. Wagner, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States, Ian Eisenman, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Torge Martin, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Till J.W. Wagner, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

0732 Icebergs [CRYOSPHERE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

What happened to Larsen C? (291569)
Eric J Rignot1, Eric Y Larour2, Bernd Scheuchl3, Ala Khazendar4, Jonathan L Bamber5 and Jeremie Mouginot3, (1)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
Understanding flow and stress in ice mélange: the world's largest granular material (224325)
Justin C Burton1, Jason M Amundson2, Ryan Cassotto3, Chin-Chang Kuo4 and Michael Dennin4, (1)Emory University, Physics, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, AK, United States, (3)Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Physics and Astronomy, Irvine, CA, United States
Linking Calving Behavior and Iceberg Distributions in Greenland Fjords (Invited) (238658)
Leigh A Stearns1,2, Siddharth Shankar3, Cornelis Jakob Van der Veen4, Soroush Rezvanbehbahani2, David Sutherland5, Ginny A Catania6 and Fiammetta Straneo7, (1)University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)University of Kansas, Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems, Lawrence, KS, United States, (4)University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, United States, (5)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (6)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (7)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Quantifying iceberg evolution in a temperate fjord (241975)
Sarah Neuhaus, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Slawek M Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
Direct Measurements of Iceberg Melt in Greenland Tidewater Glacier Fjords (293467)
Kristin M Schild1, David Sutherland1, Fiammetta Straneo2 and Pedro Elosegui3, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (3)Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) - CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Modeling dynamics of large tabular icebergs submerged in the ocean (279134)
Alistair Adcroft, Program for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, Alon A Stern, Princeton University, Princeton, United States and Olga V Sergienko, Princeton University, AOS, Princeton, United States
Nonlinear Response of Iceberg Melting to Ocean Currents (250916)
Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Anna FitzMaurice, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Fiammetta Straneo, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Capturing the Petermann Ice Island Flux With the CI2D3 Database (244191)
Anna J Crawford1, Greg Crocker2, Derek Mueller3, Ron Saper2, Luc Desjardins2 and Tom Carrieres4, (1)University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom, (2)Carleton University, Geography and Environmental Studies, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Carleton University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)Canadian Ice Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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