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Session Proposal: Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (AGU25)

C032
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere

Session ID#: 254676

Session Description:
The spatial extent of the Cryosphere – ice sheets and ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, sea ice, lake ice, permafrost, and seasonal snow – is vast but incredibly dynamic, evolving over hourly to millennial time scales and everything in between. Remotely-sensed data, including those collected from uncrewed aerial systems, crewed aircraft, and satellites, are widely used to address the observational challenges associated with such a complex component of the Earth system. This session welcomes submissions that focus primarily on remote sensing of the Cryosphere. Topics can include scientific insights gained through remotely-sensed data analysis, methods development, new processing techniques (e.g., data fusion, machine learning, AI), integration with field data and/or numerical modeling, etc. With a goal to promote cross-disciplinary exchange, we welcome submissions highlighting different parts or processes within the Cryosphere, and across the methodology and sensor landscapes.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • G - Geodesy
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0736 Snow [CRYOSPHERE]
0738 Ice [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0794 Instruments and techniques [CRYOSPHERE]
Primary Convener:  Ellyn M Enderlin, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, United States
Conveners:  Ellyn M Enderlin, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, United States, Robert L Hawley, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, Catherine C Walker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Summer Rupper, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Microwave Radiometry to Back Out Melt Extent, Melt Infiltration, Meltwater Amount, and Re-frozen Meltwater Within Ice Shelves (Invited) (1861126)
Andreas Colliander1,2, Alamgir Hossan1, Nicole Schlegel3, Julie Z Miller4, Catherine C Walker5, Baptiste Vandecrux6 and Joel T Harper7, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (3)NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Earth Science and Observation Center, Boulder, United States, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (7)University of Montana, Department of Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States
 
An Automated Multi-Data Approach for Monitoring Glacial Lake Dynamics in High Mountain Asia (1864003)
Ravindra Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Saurabh Vijay, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, India
 
Mapping Alaska's Past: Georeferencing Historical Alaska High-Altitude Aerial Photography (AHAP) (1864738)
Eli Schlossberg, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, UNITED STATES, Claire C Porter, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, United States, James Dickson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Miles Sterner, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States and Nicole Schiller, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States
 
Development of Ice Thickness for Earth's Largest Lakes Using ICESat-2 Altimetry (1865334)
Isabella Peter1, Eric J Anderson2,3, Matthew Siegfried4, Bia Villas Boas4 and Nathan T Kurtz5, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Golden, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States, (5)NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, United States
 
Antarctic Greening and Its Drivers (1869959)
Hangkai You1, Taejin Park2, Dalei Hao3, Christian Che-Castaldo4, Abhishek Chatterjee5, Dr. Fa Li6, Zhuosen Wang7, Fujiang Ji6, Bilgecan Sen8, Matthew A. Lazzara9, Yanlan Liu10, Thomas P Kurosu11 and Min Chen12, (1)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center/Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)USGS, Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Madison, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Antarctic Meteorological Research and Data Center, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, United States, (10)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, (11)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)University of Wisconsin Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States
 
Observing and Quantifying Seasonal Sea Ice Melt and Sediment Plume Dynamics at Arctic River Mouths Using Remote Sensing (1876700)
Elizabeth Tofte, Pennsylvania State University University Park, University Park, PA, UNITED STATES and Anastasia Piliouras, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
Spatial and Temporal Changes to Aufeis Distribution in Northern Alaska (1880476)
Julian Dann, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Simon Zwieback, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Paul B Leonard, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska Region, Science Applications, Fairbanks, United States and Bob Bolton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
 
Assessing the Potential of L-Band Microwave Observations for Detecting Ronne Ice Shelf Basal Marine Ice (1880732)
Nishant Tiwari, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, Shujie Wang, Pennsylvania State University, Geography, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, ICDS, University Park, PA, United States, Kenneth C. Jezek, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, Marco Brogioni, Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara”, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Joel T Johnson, The Ohio State University, ElectroScience Laboratory, Columbus, United States, Yiwen Zhou, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Lars Kaleschke, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Sophie Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Rapid Cryospheric Transformation Fuels Glacial Lake Expansion and GLOF Threat in the Indian Central Himalaya (1994–2023) (1889101)
Mitra Rajak1,2, Sheikh Nawaz Ali1,2 and Pratima Pandey3, (1)Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, (2)Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad, India, (3)Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, India
 
A Vast Valley Network Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet (1898256)
Allison Chartrand1, Joseph A MacGregor2, Prof. Mathieu Morlighem3, Olga V Sergienko4, Helen Ockenden5, William Colgan6 and Gong Cheng3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, (6)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark
 
Evaluating Snow and Terrain Influences on L-Band InSAR Coherence in Cottonwood Canyon, Utah in preparation for NISAR (1901409)
Avina Khatri1, Richard R Forster2, Summer Rupper2, Jewell Lund3, Elias J Deeb4 and Simon Brewer2, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Haub School of Environment & Natural Resources, Laramie, United States, (4)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, United States
 
Study on the Instability of Two Large Glaciers in Northeast Greenland in Recent 60 Years (1907435)
Lu An1, Litao Dai1, Xingchen Liu1 and Rongxing Li2, (1)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (2)2570 Lane Road, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Advanced Snow Cover Monitoring in the Himalayas Using MODIS: A Data-Driven Spatiotemporal Analysis Framework (1912311)
Subbarayan Saravanan, Harshavardhan R and Sivaranjani S, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Department of Civil Engineering, Tiruchirappalli, India
 
Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change and the Feedbacks on Snow Cover and Permafrost Extent (1916678)
Shannon Dillard1, Maggie Farley2, Daryl Yang3, Tianqi Zhang4, Ms. Morgan Steckler5, Kirsten Paff6, Cansu Demir1, Cade Trotter7, Ryan Crumley2, Katrina E Bennett1 and Colleen M. Iversen8, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, United States, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
 
ITS_LIVE Version 2.0: A global low latency record of land ice velocity (1926001)
Alex S Gardner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Chad A Greene, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Joseph H Kennedy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, United States, Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, Maria Liukis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Luis Lopez Espinosa, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, Yang Lei, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ted A Scambos, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States and Amaury Dehecq, University of Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, Grenoble, France
 
Toward Automated Mapping of the Greenland Ice Sheet’s Terrestrial Margins from Satellite Imagery (1927018)
Karina Holmes Zikan1, Ellyn M Enderlin1, Joseph A MacGregor2, Gregor Luetzenburg3 and Robert S Fausto3, (1)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark
 
Spatial and temporal patterns in glacier melt extents and transient snowlines from Sentinel-1 SAR across Alaska (1937532)
Albin Wells, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, David Rounce, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States and Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
 
High-Resolution Glacier Dynamics Across High Mountain Asia from a Deep-Learning-Based Multi-Source Data Fusion Framework (1954898)
Luoqi Li, Di Long and Mr. Yiming Wang, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
 
Rapid Glacier Dynamics and Surface Change Analysis using Terrestrial Time-Lapse Camera at Drang Drung Glacier, Western Himalaya (1961873)
Pawan Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India and Saurabh Vijay, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, India
 
Ice-sheet mass balance from satellite altimetry-gravimetry fusion precisely quantifies atmospheric and dynamic signatures of change (1966799)
Tyler C Sutterley, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, Brooke Medley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Matthew Siegfried, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, United States
 
Water Budgets for Antarctic Water Tracks and Wetlands from Drone-Borne Reflectance Spectroscopy, Optical Imaging, and Microwave Radiometry (1971231)
Joseph Levy1, Ian Andrews1, Izzy King1, Lily Kuentz1, Jessica Johnson1 and Anna Talucci2, (1)Colgate University, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Hamilton, United States, (2)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States
 
Multi-Scale Remote Sensing of Antarctic Lake Ice Surfaces and Implications for Long-Term Ice Stability (1972158)
Emma Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Mark R Salvatore, Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Hilary A Dugan, University of Wisconsin, Department of Integrative Biology, Madison, United States; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology, Madison, United States
 
Seasonal analysis of glacier surges in Svalbard based on Sentinel-1 data (2014–2025) (1975952)
Wojciech Milczarek, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wroclaw, Poland
 
Characterizing the Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Behavior of Photoautotrophic Communities in Antarctic Wetlands (1978185)
Mark R Salvatore1, Emma Johnson2,3, John E Barrett4, Gavin Moriarty3, Morgan Wood5, Michael N Gooseff6, Peter T Doran7, Hilary Dugan8, Charlie Dougherty8 and Byron Adams9, (1)Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States, (4)Virginia Tech, Biological Sciences Department, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (5)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Biological Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, (6)University of Colorado Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, (7)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States, (8)University of Wisconsin–Madison, Center for Limnology, Madison, United States, (9)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
 
Temporal Evolution of Greenland Ice Sheet Retreat Since the Little Ice Age (1979593)
Mohammad Salmani1, Beata M Csatho2, Jason P Briner1, Heidi Eberhardt3, Hui Gao1, Ana Carolina Moraes Luzardi1, Sophie Nowicki1, Ivan Parmuzin1 and Golsa Talebigheshlaghi1, (1)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, United States, (2)University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences, Buffalo, NY, United States, (3)University at Buffalo, Department of Geography, Buffalo, United States
 
Spatiotemporal Variability in Seasonal Velocity Drivers at Sermeq Kujalleq (1980999)
Teegan Silva1, Amy Jenson1, Lizz Ultee2, Martin Truffer3 and Jason M Amundson4, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, United States
 
Enhanced Remote Sensing Model for Monitoring Glacial Lake Turbidity (1984561)
Umesh K Haritashya1, Manmit Singh1 and Jeffrey S Kargel2, (1)University of Dayton, Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Improving Mass‑Balance Estimates through Multi‑Sensor Data Fusion (1991658)
Johan Nilsson, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
 
Using a Hydrometeorological Warning System and Remote Sensing Data to Characterize Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Risk (1997981)
Norman Frank Pelak III1, Eylon Shamir2, Theresa Modrick Hansen2 and Homayoun Khoshnod3, (1)Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, United States, (3)Ministry of Energy and Water, Kabul, Afghanistan
 
Decadal trends in Greenland-wide proglacial mélange and calving behavior from integrated altimetry and SAR (2002886)
Michalea D King, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Ian R Joughin, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States and Claire Jensen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States
 
Multi-year Changes in Antarctic Ice-Shelf Basal Melting (2003837)
Hanning Chen1, Eric J Rignot2, Bernd Scheuchl2 and Ratnakar Gadi3, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Evaluation of Ice Measurements along the East and West Greenland Shelves near Cape Farewell (2003889)
Daniel J Torres, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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