Remote sensing of the cryosphere as a tool in process studies

Auditorium 3 (Chair: Jack Kohler)

09:00 Invited speaker Leif Toudal Pedersen, DMI, Denmark: Remote sensing observations of the changes in Arctic sea ice

09:30 Joao Rodrigues & P. Wadhams, University of Cambridge, UK: Thirty years of sea ice thickness and extent in Fram Strait from submarine and satellite observations.

09:50 David Barber et. al., University of Manitoba, Canada: The summer perennial pack ice in the southern Beaufort Sea was not as it appeared in the summer of 2009.

10:10 Invited speaker Nick Hughes et. al., Met.no, Norway: Regional and Global Sea Ice reanalysis

10:30 Break

10:50 Invited speaker Ketil Isaksen, Met.no, Norway: Recent warming and thawing of Arctic permafrost

11:20 Stefanie Linow et. al., Germany: Improving snow accumulation estimates from microwave remote sensing with in-situ data.

11:40 Erik Malnes et. al., Norut, Norway: Satellite monitoring of the cryosphere and its relation to vegetation and growing seasons on Svalbard.

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Invited speaker Dana Floricioiu et. al., Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center, Germany: Advancements in glacier observations by means of high resolution TerraSAR-X radar imagery.

13:30 Max König NPI, Norway: Glacier Monitoring on Svalbard with Satellite Remote Sensing.

13:50 Anthony Doulgeris & T. Eltoft, UiT, Norway: General Statistical Methods for SAR analysis of the Cryosphere.

14:10 Jacek Jania et. al., University of Silesia, Poland: Application of satellite and terrestrial remote sensing methods for studies of tidewater glaciers in Svalbard with special reference to Hansbreen as an example.

14:30 Break

Ice shelves and ocean interactions in a warming climate (Chair: Laura de Steur)

14:50 Kurt Lambeck, The Australian National University, Australia: The ice sheets of northern Eurasia from MIS 6 to the Holocene: solutions from glacial rebound analyses

15:20 Michele Rebesco et. al., Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy: Deglaciation stages of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet from swath bathymetry and sub-bottom data

15:40 Renata G Lucchi et. al., Universidad de Barcelona, Spain: The Storfjorden paleo-ice stream deglaciation system revealed from continental margin sediments

16:00 End