at the 26th IUGG general assembly from June 22 to July 2 in Prague,
Czech Republic, we will convene a symposium on
Modelling of Mountain Glaciers, Past and Future (C04)
(see below for the description, and here for details on the IUGG
assembly: http://www.iugg2015prague.com)
We hope that you consider submitting an abstract to this symposium, and
it would be great to meet many of you in Prague! The deadline is January
31 (i.e., Saturday).
Best regards,
Ben Marzeion & Andrew Mackintosh
Description:
Glaciers are prominent features of high mountain landscapes around the
world, and shrinking glaciers have become icons of anthropogenic climate
change. Loosing mass during most of the 20th century, glaciers have
contributed significantly to sea level rise and will continue to be
important contributors during the 21st century. They are important
regulators of seasonal water availability in many regions, and both
growing and shrinking glaciers may cause geohazards. For all these
reasons, it is essential to develop an understanding of the glaciers'
response to climate variability and change on local to global scales.
Field observations of glaciers are resource-intensive, scarce, and
globally very unevenly distributed with respect to the distribution of
the glaciers; observations from remote sensing are available on global
scales, but limited to relatively short time periods. Because of this,
models have become indispensable tools for glaciologists.
In this symposium we invite contributions from glacier modeling, be it
of the surface mass and energy balance, ice dynamics, or hydrological
processes; covering spatial scales from individual glaciers to global;
and considering temporal scales from sub-seasonal to centennial (both
considering reconstructions and projections).
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