C32A:
Glacier Monitoring from in Situ and Remotely Sensed Observations II


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Session ID#: 60404

Session Description:
Glaciers and their changes provide valuable information related to climate, and can be important for water resources and potential hazards to humans. Understanding glacial processes is key to assessing the sensitivity of glacier systems to changing climate. Large scale assessments of glacier health hinge on comprehensive glacier inventories. Glaciers are monitored on different spatio-temporal scales, from extensive seasonal mass balance studies at selected glaciers to multi-decadal repeat inventories over entire mountain ranges or larger regions. Internationally coordinated glacier monitoring aims at combining in-situ measurement with remotely sensed data, and local process understanding with global coverage. Bringing together studies from the tropics to polar regions as well as from different disciplines, this session includes presentations on both in-situ and remotely sensed monitoring of glaciers, and related uncertainty assessments.
Primary Convener:  Bruce H Raup, NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Richard L Armstrong, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bruce H Raup, NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Bruce H Raup, NSIDC, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Richard L Armstrong, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0722 Rock glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0762 Mass balance [CRYOSPHERE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using New Global Compilations of Glacier Surface Elevations and Ice Speeds to Examine Glacier and Ice Cap Contributions to Sea Level. (Invited) (344805)
Michael J Willis, University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Multi-year Seasonal Mass Balance Using Airborne Laser Altimetry, Columbia Basin, Canada. (425952)
Ben M Pelto, University of Northern British Columbia, Geography, Prince George, BC, Canada and Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences, Prince George, BC, Canada
Role of glacio-morphological factors on glacier mass balance variation: a case study of glaciers in Chandra Basin, Western Himalayas, India (403476)
Anita Chandrasekharan and Raaj Ramsankaran, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Civil Engineering, Mumbai, India
Status and Decadal Changes of Glaciers in Afghanistan since 1990s (376487)
Sudan Bikash Maharjan1, Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya1, Abdul Ghayoor Shokory1,2, Esmatullah Joya1,2, Khan Agha Muazafary1,2, Mahboobullah Bariz1,2, Mohammad Murtaza Rahimi1,2, Amanullah Anwari1,2 and Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa1, (1)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)Water Resource Department, Ministry of Energy and Water, Kabul, Afghanistan
Tracking Bolivia’s Shrinking Glaciers with Landsat and DigitalGlobe, Inc. Imagery (450117)
Yasmin Fitts1, Nathalie H Eegholm2, Rikke Jepsen3, Katherine A Melocik4, Olivia R Fielding2, Christopher A. Shuman5 and Compton J Tucker6, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland, Baltimore County at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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