[CRYOLIST] G003: Data-driven models of GIA, sea-level change and its interaction with Earth’s varying shape and gravity field

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to draw your attention to the following session at the Fall AGU.  Please consider submitting abstracts to the session and/or attending this December.

The abstract deadline rapidly approaches -- now with about 8 days remaining until the widow for submissions closes: Aug. 5, 23:59 EDT

Our Invited Speakers:

Carling Hay, Harvard University

Lambert Caron, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Guy Wöppelmann, Université de La Rochelle

Mark Tamisiea, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, Liverpool

G003: Data-driven models of GIA, sea-level change and its interaction with Earth's varying shape and gravity field. 

Session ID#: 8797

Session Description:

We solicit presentations that use new data in creative ways to solve for the sources of past and present sea-level changes.  Many aspects of the role played by glacial isostatic adjustment are still under debate and the relevant scientific issues are tied to important aspects of climate change and sea-level projections. Modeling solid Earth responses to past cryospheric change is critical for decontaminating both regional and global geodetic signals from those driven by hydrological, ice sheet and ocean mass changes.  Predicting and mitigating the impacts of sea-level change requires accurate models of change in Earth's shape, particularly vertical land motion at coastlines. Datasets include global tide-gauges, satellite altimetry, GNSS, polar motion, satellite gravity time series, InSAR, altimetric observation of ice height changes and global Relative Sea Level (RSL) records.  Especially when combined, these data provide powerful information from which new constrains on past sea level can be deduced.

 Primary Convener:  

Erik R. Ivins, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Conveners:  

James L Davis, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Geoffrey Blewitt, Univ Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Holger Steffen, Lantmäteriet, Gävle, Sweden

Thank you.

Erik Ivins and for Holger Steffen, Jim Davis and Geoff Blewitt

Dr. Erik R. Ivins
Senior Research Scientist 
& Solid Earth Group Supervisor 329A
MS 300-233
Jet Propulsion Lab
California Institute of Technology
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