C015
Glacier Monitoring From In-Situ and Remotely Sensed Observations

Session ID#: 76731

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.
Index Terms:

0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
0762 Mass balance [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]

Primary Convener:  Laura Thomson, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Bruce H Raup, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Mauri S Pelto, Nichols College, Dudley, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Laura Thomson, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
 
Complex Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Surface Elevation and Ice Mass Changes around GPS sites in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, Derived from High-Resolution Digital Elevation Models (485655)
Jasmine S Hansen, University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael J Willis, University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Ryan A Hardy, NRC Research Associateship Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States
 
Geomorphometric Characterization of Topographic Structure for Evaluation of Glaciers in the Central Karakoram Himalaya (488639)
Brennan Young1,2, Michael Peter Bishop1,2, Da Huo1,2 and Zhaohui Chi1,2, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, Geography, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Center for Geospatial Science, Applications and Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Methodology for assessment the avalanche nourishment of glaciers (489435)
Sergey A Sokratov, Alla S Turchaninova, Dmitry A Petrakov, Yury G Seliverstov, Anton V Lazarev and Ekaterina I Bashkova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
 
Taku Glacier, Alaska: On the verge of a calving retreat? (495610)
Chris McNeil1, Jason M Amundson2, Shad O'Neel1, Martin Truffer3, Louis Sass1 and Roman J Motyka4, (1)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Univ Alaska-Geophysical Inst, Juneau, AK, United States
 
Glacier Geometry Changes on the Volcanic Island of Jan Mayen in Relation to Climate, Sea Surface Temperature, and Sea Ice (497452)
Jade Cooley, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada, Hester Jiskoot, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada and Wesley Van Wychen, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
Understanding the drivers of Kaskawulsh Glacier thinning, southwest Yukon, Canada, 2007-2018 (497525)
Erik Young1, Gwenn E Flowers1, Etienne Berthier2 and Rebecca Latto3, (1)Simon Fraser University, Department of Earth Sciences, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (2)CNRS / OMP / LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (3)Columbia University of New York, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States
 
Identifying Iceberg Characteristics and Drift Patterns in Canadian Waters (497574)
Abigail Dalton1, Luke Copland1 and Wesley Van Wychen2, (1)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
Geodetic mass balance of three glaciers in the Monte San Lorenzo (Patagonian Andes) from 1958 to 2018 (498671)
Daniel Falaschi1, Maria Gabriela Lenzano2, Ricardo Villalba2, Tobias Bolch3, Andres Rivera4 and Andres Lo Vecchio1, (1)Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Geomatics, Mendoza, Argentina, (2)Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Mendoza, Argentina, (3)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (4)CECS-Center for Scientific Studies, Valdvia, Chile
 
Results from the First National Glacier Inventory of Argentine Andes (498919)
Laura Viviana Zalazar, Lidia Ferri Hidalgo, Mariano Castro, Hernán Gargantini, Melisa Gimenez, Pierre Pitte, Lucas Ruiz, Mariano H Masiokas and Ricardo Villalba, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Mendoza, Argentina
 
Updated GAMDAM Glacier Inventory over High Mountain Asia. (Invited) (501040)
Akiko Sakai, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
 
Bathymetry along the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet using “Oceans Melting Greenland” (OMG) data (503961)
Lu An1, Eric J Rignot2, Mathieu Morlighem3, Romain Millan4, Kirsty J Tinto5, Nolwenn Chauche6, David Holland7, Denise Holland8, Martin Jakobsson9, Ingo Klaucke10, Michael Wood1, Emily Kane1, Isabella Velicogna11, Wilhelm Weinrebe12 and Josh K Willis13, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, (5)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Aberystwyth University, Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (7)New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (8)New York University, New York, NY, United States, (9)Stockholm University, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, (10)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (11)UCI, Irvine, CA, United States, (12)GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Understanding Spatial Patterns of Mass Loss of a Debris-Covered Glacier Using Distributed Energy Balance Modelling and High Resolution Elevation Models (505155)
Jakob F Steiner1, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink2, Maxime Litt3 and Walter W. Immerzeel2, (1)Utrecht University, Department of Geopgraphy, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Global mapping of surface flow velocity for mountain glaciers using multi-sensor satellite data (505303)
Romain Millan1, Jeremie Mouginot2, Antoine Rabatel1, Anna Derkacheva1, Diego Cusicanqui1, Seongsu Jeong3 and Mathieu Morlighem4, (1)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Recent doubling of mid- and low-latitude glacial lakes (507658)
Daniel H Shugar, University of Calgary, Dept of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, Aaron Burr, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, United States, Umesh K Haritashya, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States, Jeffrey S Kargel, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, Scott Watson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Maureen C Kennedy, University of Washington Tacoma, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Tacoma, WA, United States, Alexandre Bevington, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Prince George, BC, Canada, Richard A. Betts, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, Stephan Harrison, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom and Katherine Strattman, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Measuring Iceberg Calving Fluxes with Underwater Noise (514869)
Oskar Glowacki and Grant B Deane, University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Seasonal ice velocity changes of Greenlandic glaciers: insights from new and dense remote sensing observations and hydrological modeling (520479)
Saurabh Vijay1, Winnie Chu2, Michalea D King3, Ian M Howat3, Shfaqat Abbas Khan4 and Anne Solgaard5, (1)Ohio State University, Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Ohio State University, Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, (5)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Reanalyses of glacier mass budgets in High Mountain Asia based on geodetic measurements since 1960s (520697)
Atanu Bhattacharya1, Tobias Bolch2, Owen King1 and Tandong Yao3, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (3)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Modeling future mass balance of glaciers in Alaska using Python Glacier Evolution Model (525712)
Zoe Screwvala1,2, David Rounce1 and Regine Hock1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States
 
Mass Balance Series of Brewster Glacier (New Zealand) 1977-2018 Calibrated With Complete Photogrammetric Reanalysis (526173)
Pascal J Sirguey1, Tobias Brunk1,2, Nicolas J Cullen3 and Aubrey Miller1, (1)University of Otago, School of Surveying, Dunedin, New Zealand, (2)University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (3)University of Otago, Department of Geography, Dunedin, New Zealand
 
Spatial Patterns Of Tropical Glacier Retreat - Observations & Potential Mechanisms (545490)
Andrew Malone, Daniela Damian and Krystyna Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Intra-Annual Snow Cover Variability on the Quelccaya Ice Cap (Peru) (550146)
Ashley Reannon Nodruff and Andrew Malone, University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
 
How well will ICESat-2 do in measuring glacier mass change in western North America? (560060)
Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Geography and Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute, Prince George, BC, Canada, Alex S Gardner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Scott Williamson, University of Northern British Columbia, Geography, Prince George, BC, Canada and Ben M Pelto, University of Northern British Columbia, Geography, Prince George, Canada
 
Analyzing the Geodetic Mass Balance Uncertainty Budget on North American Benchmark Glaciers (562148)
Caitlyn Florentine1, Shad O'Neel2, Louis Sass3, Chris McNeil4 and Emily Baker3, (1)USGS Geological Survey, Menlo Park, MT, United States, (2)USGS, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)United States Geological Survey, Anchorage, WA, United States
 
Automated production of high-resolution DEMs from historical imagery for quantitative analysis of glacier and geomorphological change (564155)
Friedrich Knuth1, David E Shean1, Oleg Alexandrov2 and Shashank Bhushan1, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Robotics Group, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Comprehensive Alaska/Yukon glacier change over the last 47 years captured in satellite time-lapse movies: a visual record of ice and climate (565412)
Mark A Fahnestock1, Chris Larsen2 and Martin Truffer1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Quantifying glacier elevation change and mass balance in the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau during 2000‒2018 using satellite altimetry and DEM (567008)
Fanyu Zhao, Di Long, Xingdong Li, Qi Huang, Pengfei Han and Zhongying Han, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
 
Automated tools to derive short-term glacier velocity from high-resolution commercial satellite imagery (570570)
Shashank Bhushan1, David E Shean1 and Oleg Alexandrov2, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Robotics Group, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Validation of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Topographic Maps In Alaska and Greenland (572055)
Delwyn Moller1, Scott Hensley2, Jeremie Mouginot3, Josh K Willis4, Xiaoqing Wu5, Chris Larsen6, Eric J Rignot3, Ronald Muellerschoen7 and Ala Khazendar7, (1)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL-Radar Science & Engrg, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Glacier mass and area changes on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, 1986-2016 (574886)
Ruitang Yang, Lanzhou, China, Regine Hock, Univ of AK-Geophysical Inst, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Wanqin Guo, CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China and Kang Shichang, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
Mass Balance and Surface Velocity Measurements of a Debris Covered Glacier: The Satopanth Glacier, Central Himalaya, India From 2014 to 2018 (579440)
Sunil Singh Shah, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Department of Geology, Srinagar Garhwal, India, Argha Banerjee, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India, Earth and Climate Science, Pune, India, H.C. Nainwal, H. N. B. Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttrakhand, Geology, Srinagar, India and R. Shankar, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
 
Measuring tidewater glacier melt rates with underwater noise (580065)
Grant B Deane1, Oskar Glowacki2, Dale Stokes1, Mateusz Moskalik3, Mandar Chitre4 and Christian M Powell5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Physical Laboratory, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (4)National University of Singapore, ARL, Singapore, Singapore, (5)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
 
Decades of Change at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, Visualized from Repeat Satellite Imagery (584700)
Christopher A. Shuman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET at NASA GSFC Code 615, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Etienne Berthier, CNRS / OMP / LEGOS, Toulouse, France and Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
RGI-like Glacier Maps From The GLIMS Glacier Database, Created On Demand For Arbitrary Years (588932)
Bruce H Raup, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Small glacier changes over the past 60+ years on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, using Structure from Motion (593862)
Braden Smeda1, Dorota Medrzycka2, Luke Copland1 and Laura Thomson3, (1)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, (3)Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
 
Simulating mass balance of Austre Gronfjordbreen, Svalbard, using distributed energy-balance model. (594485)
Nelly Elagina1, Ekaterina Rets2 and Stanislav Kutuzov1, (1)Institute of Geography RAS, Moscow, Russia, (2)Water Problems Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
 
Surface Velocity Measurement of Satopanth and Bhagirathi Kharak Glacier in Garhwal Himalaya Using SAR Data and Its Application for the Ice-Thickness Measurement (595067)
Mohd Ramiz, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, Masood Ahsan Siddiqui, Jamia Millia Islamia, Geography, New Delhi, India and M. Anul Haq, NIIT University, Neemrana, Alwar, India
 
60-Year Surface Elevation Changes of Major Transantarctic Mountain Outlet Glaciers (597194)
Sarah F Child, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Leigh A Stearns, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Historical Soviet satellite images provide high resolution knowledge on Greenland Ice Sheet dynamics (607129)
Anders A Bjork, University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark, Jeremie Mouginot, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
 
Remote Sensing of Ice Sheet Internal Temperatures Using Ultra-Wideband Microwave Radiometry (616536)
Joel T Johnson1, M Brogioni2, Kenneth C Jezek3, Caglar Yardim4, G Macelloni2, Michael T Durand5, Yuna Duan6, Leung Tsang7, Shurun Tan8, Haokui Xu9 and Jiyue Zhu8, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Electrical and Computer Enginneering, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Institute of Applied Phyhsics, Microwave Remote Sensing Group, Fiorentino, Italy, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Electroscience Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Science and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (6)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (7)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Surge of Little Kluane Glacier in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada, from 2017-2018 (617917)
Brittany Main1,2, Luke Copland1, Sergey V Samsonov3, Christine F Dow4, Gwenn E Flowers5, Erik Young5 and William Hardy Kochtitzky6, (1)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Canada Centre for Remote Sensi, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (5)Simon Fraser University, Department of Earth Sciences, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (6)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
 
Ice flow dynamics during retreat induced separation of a tributary glacier (623523)
Ben Popken, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, Maximillian Samuel Van Wyk de Vries, University of Minnesota, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Andrew D Wickert, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Shanti Bhattacharya Penprase, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States
 
Quantifying Seasonal Impacts on Glacier Change Using Low Altitude Helicopter Airborne Laser Scanning; Wolverine Glacier, Alaska (628758)
Dominic Leonard Filiano1, Adam LeWinter1, David C Finnegan1 and Shad O'Neel2, (1)US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)USGS, Anchorage, AK, United States
 
Feasibility of Estimating Ice Sheet Internal Temperatures Using Ultra-Wideband Radiometric Measurements (633537)
Yuna Duan1, Michael T Durand2, Kenneth C Jezek3, Caglar Yardim4, Alexandra Bringer3, Mustafa Aksoy3 and Joel Johnson5, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Science and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Electroscience Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Ohio State University, Electroscience Lab, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Application of terrestrial scanning LIDAR to study the evolution of surface change of Quisoquipina and Suyuparina Glaciers in the Cordillera Vilcanota, Cusco – Peru. (633922)
Nilton Montoya, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Department of Agriculture, Cusco, Peru
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