C023
Modeling of the Cryosphere: Glaciers and Ice Sheets

Session ID#: 79002

Session Description:
This session focuses on process-based modeling of glaciers and ice sheets that improves our understanding of ice dynamics or enhances the capabilities of current models. We invite contributions from a broad range of theoretical, numerical, or experimental studies that explore new or improved representations of physical processes relevant to ice flow. The range of topics that is encouraged includes, but is not limited to: basal processes (such as glacial hydrology, erosion, surging, the onset of ice streams), mechanical and thermodynamic processes (constitutive relationships, material behavior, ice fracturing), and ice-ocean interactions (for example calving, grounding line dynamics).    
Index Terms:

0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
0774 Dynamics [CRYOSPHERE]
0776 Glaciology [CRYOSPHERE]
0798 Modeling [CRYOSPHERE]


Primary Convener:  Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Sophie Nowicki, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Ian Hewitt, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Thermally activated sliding in ice sheet flow (Invited) (486775)
Elisa Mantelli, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Bayesian optimisation of firn densification models (490583)
Vincent Verjans, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Amber Leeson, University of Lancaster, Lancaster Environment Centre/Data Science Institute, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Christopher Nemeth, Lancaster University, Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster, United Kingdom and C. Max Stevens, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Constraining Ice-Dynamic Model Parameters using Crevasse Observations (493525)
Thomas Trantow, University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics, Boulder, CO, United States and Ute C Herzfeld, Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Sea level projections using ice sheet model based on RCP scenarios at David Glacier, East Antarctica (494036)
In-Woo Park1,2, Emilia Kyung Jin1, Kang Kun Lee3, Won Sang Lee1, Mathieu Morlighem4, Choon-Ki Lee1, Duncan A Young5, Donald D Blankenship5, Lucas Beam5, Jamin Stevens Greenbaum5, Jason L Roberts6 and Sun Bo7, (1)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea, (2)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, TAS, Australia, (7)Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
 
Tidal Forcing of non-Laurentide Ice Streams during Heinrich Event Instability (494229)
Jesse Velay-Vitow, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, W Richard Peltier, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and Gordan R Stuhne, Department of Physics, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Long-term stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (505485)
Julius Garbe1,2, Torsten Albrecht1, Jonathan Friedemann Donges1,3, Anders Levermann1,4 and Ricarda Winkelmann1,5, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, United States, (5)University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics, Potsdam, Germany
 
The dynamics of ice stream margins: englacial melting, water weakening, and drainage (505673)
Marianne Haseloff, Ian Hewitt and Richard F Katz, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Quantifying the Effects of Lateral Advection on Shear Margin Thermomechanics (508059)
Pierce Hunter1, Colin R Meyer1, Brent M Minchew2, Marianne Haseloff3 and Alan W Rempel1, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Role of the Eastern Shear Margin in Thwaites Glacier’s Dynamics (513156)
Emily Schwans, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Byron R Parizek, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Richard B Alley, Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Mathieu Morlighem, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Pierre St-Laurent, Old Dominion University, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Norfolk, VA, United States, Ryan T Walker, University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD, United States and The GHOST Team of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration
 
Tidal Grounding Line Migration Modulated by Subglacial Hydrology (515509)
Katarzyna Warburton1, Jerome A Neufeld2 and Duncan Hewitt1, (1)University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, BP Institute & Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Sensitivity of Greenland ice loss to albedo change (515692)
Maria Zeitz1,2, Anders Levermann1,3 and Ricarda Winkelmann1,2, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, United States
 
Exceptionally high Geothermal heat flux needed to sustain the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (516282)
Silje Smith-Johnsen1, Basile de Fleurian2, Nicole Schlegel3, Helene L Seroussi3 and Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu4, (1)University of Bergen, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (2)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
 
An Experimental Study of Subglacial Debris-Bed Friction During Basal Slip (518476)
Anna C Thompson1, Neal R Iverson1 and Lucas Zoet2, (1)Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States
 
Probabilistic Sea Level Projections from Ice Sheet and Earth System Models (ProSPect) (519393)
Stephen F Price1, Esmond G Ng2, Xylar Asay-Davis1, Jeremy N Bassis3, Luca Bertagna4, Cameron Book1, Darin Scott Comeau1, Matt Dunlop5, Katherine J Evans6, Matthew J Hoffman1, John Jakeman4, Samuel Benjamin Kachuck7, Joseph H Kennedy6, Daniel F Martin2, Mauro Perego4, Mark R Petersen1, Andrew Salinger4, Adam Michael Schneider8, Georg Stadler9, Irina Tezaur4, Raymond S Tuminaro10, Jerry Watkins10, Morgan Whitcomb7, Charles S Zender11 and Tong Zhang1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)New York University, New York, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (7)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)University of Michigan, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (10)Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, (11)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Impact of Complex Topography on Thermomechanical Coupled Ice Flow Using the Immersed Boundary Method (521171)
Weijia Liu1, Ludovic Räss2, Paul Summers3, Alana Papula4 and Jenny Suckale1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford Earth Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, United States
 
Dynamical unity of "Alaskan-type" and "Svalbard-type" glacier surges (533254)
Doug Benn1, Olaf Eisen2, Andrew Fowler3, Ian Hewitt4, Robert Jones1 and Adrian J Luckman5, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)AWI Bremerhaven, Reutlingen, Germany, (3)University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, (4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)Swansea University, Glaciology Group, Swansea, United Kingdom
 
Modelled and observed changes of the northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) Greenland (534420)
Shfaqat Abbas Khan1, Mathieu Morlighem2, Youngmin Choi2, Jeremie Mouginot3, Anders A Bjork4, Eric J Rignot3, Saurabh Vijay5, Kurt Henrik Kjaer4, Veit Helm6, Michael G Bevis7, Lin Liu8, Romain Millan9 and Kristian K Kjeldsen10, (1)Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, (5)Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States, (6)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (7)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (8)The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Earth System Science Programme, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (9)University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, (10)DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark
 
Buoyancy forces create numerical instabilities in Full Stokes Flow: Identifying physical and numerical calving instabilities (540208)
Brandon Robert Berg, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Expansion and stabilization of unstable glacier sliding simulated using a rate-and-state formulation for basal friction (542670)
Thomas Schuler1, Kjetil Thøgersen2, Adrien Gilbert2,3 and Anders Malthe-Sorenssen2, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (3)Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IGE, Grenoble, France
 
Inferring the mechanics of slip at ice-stream beds using time-dependent remote sensing observations (542988)
Brent M Minchew, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Julia Wilcots, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Rheological impact of crystallographic fabric in the margin of streaming ice (545870)
Christopher C Gerbi1, Kate Hruby1, Peter Ortquist Koons1, Seth W Campbell1, Carlos Martin2 and Robert L Hawley3, (1)University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, (2)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)Dartmouth College; IASC Cryosphere WG Member, Hanover, NH, United States
 
East Greenland firn aquifer water extends the efficiency of the subglacial hydrological system beyond the melt season (Invited) (550489)
Kristin Poinar, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, Christine F Dow, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Lauren C Andrews, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Can coupling sliding and hydrology models produce better estimates of ice flow? (552399)
Douglas Brinkerhoff, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, Andy Aschwanden, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Mark A Fahnestock, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Simultaneous Inversion for Glacier Bed Properties and Ice Rheology using Adjoint-Based Methods (554445)
Meghana Ranganathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Brent M Minchew, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Gudmundur Hilmar Gudmundsson, Northumbria University, Geography and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Colin R. Meyer, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States
 
Investigating the Drivers of Change of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica (557352)
Thiago Dias dos Santos, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Mathieu Morlighem, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Gudmundur Hilmar Gudmundsson, Northumbria University, Geography and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom and Daniel Goldberg, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
Damage Mechanics as an Alternative to Minimum Thickness Criteria for Ice Shelves (565660)
Morgan Whitcomb, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jeremy N Bassis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Daniel F Martin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Joint Inversion for Surface Accumulation and Geothermal Flux from Ice-Penetrating Radar Observations (569902)
Michael J Wolovick1, John C Moore1, Sun Bo2, Xiangbin Cui2 and Liyun Zhao1, (1)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China
 
Stopping the Flood: Continued Progress in Targeted Glacial Geoengineering (572152)
John C Moore1, Michael J Wolovick2, Rajeev Jaiman3, Jasmin Jelovica3 and Bowie Keefer3, (1)Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
 
Uncertainty Quantification on mass flux of Thwaites Glacier (572650)
Hyuk Kang, NIMS National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Deajeon, Korea, Republic of (South), Jong-Ho Kim, National Institues for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea and HarkSoo Song, National Institutes for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea
 
Response of Greenland outlet glaciers to temporal variability in terminus motion over centennial time scales (580971)
Denis Felikson1, Sophie Nowicki2, Isabel Nias2, Helene L Seroussi3 and Mathieu Morlighem4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
An enthalpy method for subglacial frozen fringe (587993)
Colin R Meyer, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Christian Schoof, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Alan W Rempel, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Marine Ice Cliff Instability Mitigated by Slow Removal of Ice Shelves (589006)
Fiona Clerc, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Cambridge, MA, United States, Brent M Minchew, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Mark D Behn, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States
 
High-resolution Treatment of Topography and Grounding Line Dynamics in BISICLES (593004)
Hans Johansen1, Daniel F Martin2 and Esmond G Ng2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
A new continuum model for till consistent with granular mechanics (595222)
Anders Damsgaard, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Liran Goren, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel and Indraneel Kasmalkar, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Fracture thresholds of glacier ice during cauldron collapse and surface loading (601268)
Elizabeth Ultee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Colin R. Meyer, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, Brent M Minchew, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Tomas Johannesson, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland and Alexander Robel, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Critical thresholds of Antarctic ice-sheet basins (607900)
Ricarda Winkelmann1,2, Julius Garbe1,2, Torsten Albrecht1, Jonathan Friedemann Donges1,3 and Anders Levermann1,4, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, United States
 
Potential Formation of a New Shear Margin at Thwaites Glacier (608716)
Paul Summers, Stanford Earth Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, United States, Cooper Wheeler Elsworth, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Subglacial sediment flux will increase under retreating glacier scenarios (613134)
Ian Arburua Delaney and Surendra Adhikari, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Harnessing Satellite 4D SAR for Glacier Surface Tracking over Khumbu Glacier at Mount Everest (614036)
Justyna Kosianka, Ursa Space Systems, Staten Island, NY, United States and Daniela Moody, Ursa Space Systems, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
A hybrid glacier flow model via spectral methods and terrain-following coordinates (616667)
Daniel Shapero, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Sliding relations for hard-bedded glacier slip with cavities over topography based on high-resolution DEMs (617792)
Christian Helanow1, Neal R Iverson1, Jacob Woodard2 and Lucas Zoet2, (1)Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Geoscience, Madison, WI, United States
 
Timescale of ice-sheet retreat in the presence of ice-shelf buttressing (621423)
Anders Levermann1,2 and Johannes Feldmann1, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, United States
 
Evaluation of E3SM snowpack and firn initialization and early 20th century simulations (630650)
Adam Michael Schneider, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Charles S Zender, Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Stephen F Price, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
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