C13F:
Dust, Black Carbon, and Other Aerosols in the Cryosphere Posters


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Session ID#: 51302

Session Description:
Observation and modeling efforts have established the powerful regional impact on snow and ice cover from the deposition of light absorbing aerosols, such as mineral dust, carbonaceous particles, and biological constituents.  The subsequent darkening of the snow surface and initiation of snow albedo feedbacks has implications for the global climate and water cycle. This session will focus on observations and modeling of the past, present, and future impacts of mineral dust, carbonaceous particles, biological constituents, and other aerosols on snow and ice cover including transport and deposition processes, optical properties, impacts to albedo and snowmelt, glacier/ice sheet mass balance, and atmospheric heating.
Primary Convener:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Thomas H Painter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, United States and Alia Lauren Khan, Western Washington University, Bellingham, United States
Primary Liaison:  McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Chairs:  Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, United States and Alia Lauren Khan, Western Washington University, Bellingham, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alia Lauren Khan, Western Washington University, Bellingham, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0740 Snowmelt [CRYOSPHERE]
0764 Energy balance [CRYOSPHERE]
0792 Contaminants [CRYOSPHERE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Elemental and Mineralogical Characterization of Light Absorbing Particles in Seasonal Snow and Glacial Ice using Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy on a Scanning Electron Microscope (394623)
Riley Blanchard1, Susan Kaspari2, Angela Halfpenny1, Celia LaPorta3 and Melanie Swick4, (1)Central Washington University, Department of Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (2)Central Washington University, Ellensburg, United States, (3)Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment, Slippery Rock, PA, United States, (4)Central Washington University, Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, WA, United States
Recent Advances in the Characterization of Light Absorbing Particles Using a Hyperspectral Imaging Microscope Spectrometer and a Scanning Electron Microscope (379305)
Susan Kaspari1, Melanie Swick2, Angela Halfpenny3, Celia LaPorta4, Riley Blanchard3 and Riley Keister5, (1)Central Washington University, Ellensburg, United States, (2)Central Washington University, Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (3)Central Washington University, Department of Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (4)Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment, Slippery Rock, PA, United States, (5)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
The shortwave light absorption properties of aerosol particles deposited in fresh snow samples (406031)
Martin Schnaiter1, Claudia Linke2, Inas Ibrahim3, Fritz Waitz3 and Till Rehm4, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Aerosol Research (IMK-AAF), Karlsruhe, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research – Atmospheric Aerosol Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus, Zugspitze, Germany
A Step in Understanding Glacial Flow: Exploring the Effects of Entrained Insoluble Debris on Mechanical Properties of Polycrystalline ice (423825)
Alexandra Rivera, Ardsley High School, Ardsley, NY, United States and Christine McCarthy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Spatial variability of black carbon on glaciers in the eastern Alaskan Range, Alaska USA (348386)
Keiko Konya, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, Takuma Miyakawa, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Global Change, Kanagawa, Japan, Masayuki Takigawa, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Institute of Arctic Climate and Environment Research, Yokohama, Japan, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Shad O'Neel, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Martin Truffer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Clemens-Sewall David, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States and Ian Lee, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
7000 year of aerosol deposition to the Alps from the Ortles ice core (354150)
Paolo Gabrielli1, Carlo Barbante2, Michele Bertò3, Luca Carturan4, Mary E Davis5, Giuliano Dreossi6, Ping-Nan Lin1 and Barbara Stenni3, (1)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ca' Foscari University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Venice, Italy, (3)University of Venice, Venice, Italy, (4)University of Padua, Padua, Italy, (5)The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (6)IDPA CNR, Venice, Italy
Measurements of black carbon and its impact over Vatnajökull Ice Cap in southeast Iceland on 2018 (455310)
Isatis M. Cintron-Rodriguez, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Monica Mazurek, Rutgers University, Hillsborough, NJ, United States
Investigating the Potential Contribution of Forest Fires to Widespread Melt of Greenland Ice Sheet in 2012 (415521)
Xiaohua Pan1, Peter Richard Colarco2, Sophie Nowicki3, Mian Chin2 and Richard I Cullather4, (1)NASA GSFC/GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States
Spatial and temporal changes in aerosol radiative forcing on glaciers in the eastern Himalaya (392612)
Matthew Olson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Summer Rupper, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society & Sustainability, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Contrasting the main processes for snow albedo reduction in High Mountain Asia and Colorado. (371706)
Hoi Ga Veronica Chan1,2, Paul A Ginoux3, Sarah B Kapnick1, Sergey Malyshev4 and Elena Shevliakova5, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States
Light-Absorbing Impurities in Snow Cover Surface across the Northern Xinjiang (408783)
Xinyue Zhong1, Kang Shichang2,3, Li Xiaofei4, Junhua Yang2, Yajun Liu2, Wei Zhang2, Yulan Zhang5 and Pengfei Chen2, (1)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China, (2)CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, SKLCS, Lanzhou, China, (3)CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beiijing, China, (4)Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (5)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SKLCS, Lanzhou, China
Spatial and Temporal Variations in Radiative Forcing by Light-Absorbing Particles in Snow in Northeastern China Retrieved from Satellite Observations (429977)
Xin Wang, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Wei Pu, LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Xuelei Zhang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China and Cenlin He, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Long Range Transport and Wet Deposition Fluxes of Major Ions in Snow at North Western Himalayas (India). (362510)
Anshu Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and UC Kulshrestha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Environmental Sciences, New Delhi, India

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