Dear colleagues,
If you are working on any aspect of ice sheet/ice shelf surface mass balance, please consider submitting your abstract to our AGU Fall Meeting Session C003 "Advances in Understanding Ice Sheet and Ice Shelf Surface Mass Balance: Past, Present, and Future" - details below.
Submissions are open until Wednesday 29th of July.
Thanks!
Luke, Michalea, Brice, and Nander
C003 - Advances in Understanding Ice Sheet and Ice Shelf Surface Mass Balance: Past, Present, and Future
A reliable estimate of surface mass balance (SMB) is critical for understanding past, present, and future ice sheet mass balance and sea level change. In Antarctica, trends in mass balance are sensitive to large variability in SMB, driven predominantly by snowfall anomalies. Meltwater runoff is a leading driver of Greenland mass loss, and increases in melt more broadly over ice sheet and ice shelf surfaces warrants greater attention to surface hydrology and its potential impacts on hydrofracture, firn properties, and surface albedo. Our assessment of ice sheet mass balance depends on detailed observations and the accurate representation of these processes in ice sheet and climate models. We invite both observational and modeling-based presentations that study SMB processes, drivers, and impacts, including snow accumulation and redistribution, firn densification, meltwater production, retention, and transport, and those that combine SMB with solid ice discharge products to assess trends in ice sheet mass balance.
Invited Speakers:
Helen Fricker (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
James Lea (University of Liverpool)
Conveners:
Luke Trusel (Penn State University)
Michalea King (Ohio State University)
Brice Noël (IMAU, Utrecht University)
Nander Wever (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Details and submission: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/101746
If you are working on any aspect of ice sheet/ice shelf surface mass balance, please consider submitting your abstract to our AGU Fall Meeting Session C003 "Advances in Understanding Ice Sheet and Ice Shelf Surface Mass Balance: Past, Present, and Future" - details below.
Submissions are open until Wednesday 29th of July.
Thanks!
Luke, Michalea, Brice, and Nander
C003 - Advances in Understanding Ice Sheet and Ice Shelf Surface Mass Balance: Past, Present, and Future
A reliable estimate of surface mass balance (SMB) is critical for understanding past, present, and future ice sheet mass balance and sea level change. In Antarctica, trends in mass balance are sensitive to large variability in SMB, driven predominantly by snowfall anomalies. Meltwater runoff is a leading driver of Greenland mass loss, and increases in melt more broadly over ice sheet and ice shelf surfaces warrants greater attention to surface hydrology and its potential impacts on hydrofracture, firn properties, and surface albedo. Our assessment of ice sheet mass balance depends on detailed observations and the accurate representation of these processes in ice sheet and climate models. We invite both observational and modeling-based presentations that study SMB processes, drivers, and impacts, including snow accumulation and redistribution, firn densification, meltwater production, retention, and transport, and those that combine SMB with solid ice discharge products to assess trends in ice sheet mass balance.
Invited Speakers:
Helen Fricker (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
James Lea (University of Liverpool)
Conveners:
Luke Trusel (Penn State University)
Michalea King (Ohio State University)
Brice Noël (IMAU, Utrecht University)
Nander Wever (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Details and submission: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/prelim.cgi/Session/101746
