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Abstracts accepted for presentation at the international workshop on mass balance measurements and modelling

Listed in alphabetical order of first author

50A013

Liss M. Andreassen Johannes Oerlemans
Modelling the long term mass balance series of Storbreen, Norway, using an energy balance approach

50A079

Anthony Arendt Scott Luthcke Waleed Abdalati Christopher Larsen Craig Lingle Keith Echelmeyer David Rowlands
GRACE and Aircraft Altimetry Estimates of Alaska Glacier Changes: Can Mass Balance Models Explain Recent Trends?

50A051

Jonathan Bamber Marion Bougamont Rupert Gladstone Tony Payne Ian Rutt Edward Hanna Jeff Ridley Wouter Greuell
Uncertainties in the present-day and future surface mass balance of the Greenland ice Sheet

50A076

Andreas Bauder Matthias Huss
Regional differences in point observations of mass balance in Switzerland

50A055

Dr. Reinhard Boehm Dr. Wolfgang Schoener
A new early instrumental bias corrected temperature dataset for the European Alps

50A063

Carl Egede Bøggild Andreas A. Ahlstrøm
Automatic mass balance observations in Greenland

50A024

Jason Box Yushin Ahn James Balog Jeff Orlowski
Glacier velocity variability from repeat photography

50A021

Roger J. Braithwaite
Calculation of sensible heat flux over a melting ice surface using data from automatic climate stations

50A065

Roger J. Braithwaite
After six decades of monitoring glacier mass balance we still need data but it should be richer data

50A061

Kristian Breili Cecilie Rolstad
Ground based gravimetry and GPS for measuring small scale mass changes on glaciers

50A075

Ian A Brown Miriam Jackson Thomas Vikhamar Schuler Regine Hock
Estimations of glacier net balance from Synthetic aperture radar data over Svartisen, Norway

50A071

Marco Carenzo Francesca Pellicciotti Stefan Rimkus Jakob Helbing Paolo Burlando
On the importance of including the heat conduction into the snow and icepack in glacier energy-balance modelling

50A029

Carturan Luca Giancarlo Dalla Fontana
Estimation of glacier mass balance in unsampled areas by means of topographic data


50A033

Anne Chapuis Cecilie Rolstad Ivar Maalen-Johansen
Terrerstrial photogrammetry for measurements of the calving rate of Kronebreen, Svalbard

50A043

J. Graham Cogley
Geodetic and Direct Mass-balance Measurements: Comparison and Joint Analysis

50A041

Javier G. Corripio Georg Kaser Irmgard Juen
Modelling the energy balance of a tropical glacier in the Cordillera Blanca and the implications for regional water resources

50A090

Daniel Binder, Ewald Brückl, Wolfgang Schöner, Bernhard Hynek
Analysis of snow cover by Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

50A026

Mattias de Woul Valentina Radic Regine Hock Mark Dyurgerov
Global glacier mass losses and mass balance sensitivities assessed from observations and gridded climate data

50A083

Roberto Dinale Carmen Oberparleiter Gianluca Vignoli
Hydrological analyses supporting traditional mass balance studies on South Tyrolean glaciers

50A072

Martial Duguay Regine Hock, Anne Coudrain
Hydrological modelling of Zongo Glacier, Bolivia

50A036

Thorben Dunse Thomas Vikhamar Schuler Jon Ove Hagen Trond Eiken Geir Moholdt Andrea Taurisano Kjetil Melvold Kjell Arild Högda
Glacier facies transitions on Austfonna, Svalbard, derived from ground-penetrating radar

50A092

Mark Dyurgerov
Glacier Mass Balance; Results from Direct Observations

50A052

Hallgeir Elvehøy Liss M. Andreassen Rune Engeset Miriam Jackson Bjarne Kjöllmoen Kjetil Melvold
The influence of drainage boundaries on specific mass balance results, a case study of Engabreen, Norway

50A032

Heidi Escher-Vetter Michael Kuhn Markus Weber
Analysis of the accumulation amounts of three neighbouring Oetztal glaciers based on measured and modelled mass balance data

50A048

Feiteng Wang Zhongqin Li
Study on the mass balance of Urumqi glacier No.1, eastern Tianshan, China

50A095

Andrea Fischer Gerhard Markl Heralt Schneider
Do long term mass balance series need homogenization?

50A093

Andrew G. Fountain Matthew Hoffman
Glacier Inventory and Change in the American West and Directions for the Future

50A094

Andrew G. Fountain Matthew Hoffman
The Utility of the Benchmark Glacier Concept

50A100

Andrew G.Fountain Peter Jansson
Uncertainty in the glacier mass balance measurement

50A001

Koji Fujita
Effect of precipitation seasonality on glacier mass balance

50A003

Alex Gardner Martin Sharp
The importance of including variable near-surface temperature lapse rates when employing the degree-day method to estimate glacier melt

50A078

Jason Geck Dr. Matt Nolan
Ice volume change in Arctic Alaska, 1970-2007

50A010

C. Genthon V. Favier G. Krinner O. Magand E. Le Meur D. Six
The GLACIOCLIM-SAMBA transect

50A005

Genthon Christophe Lardeux Pierre Krinner Gerhard
The surface accumulation and ablation of a coastal blue ice area near Cap Prudhomme, Adélie Land, Antarctica

50A004

Christophe Genthon Olivier Magand G.Krinner Michel Fily
By how much do climate models underestimate snow accumulation on the Antarctic plateau? A re-evalutation of/from in-situ observations

50A027

Rianne H. Giesen Johannes Oerlemans
Modelling the 20th century surface mass balance of Hardangerjökulen, southern Norway

50A066

Dr Rupert Gladstone Professor Jonathan Bamber Dr Marion Bougamont
Uncertainty assessment in model-based predictions of surface mass balance

50A007

Glazirin Gleb E.
Calculation of glacier mass balance and changes of mountain river basins glaciation using standard meteorological data

50A019

Wilfried Haeberli Martin Hoelzle Frank Paul Michael Zemp
Challenges and strategies for worldwide monitoring of glacier mass balances and mass changes

50A046

Jon Ove Hagen Thorben Dunse Trond Eiken Geir Moholdt Thomas V. Schuler Kjetil Melvold Ola Brandt Andrea Taurisano
Mass balance of Austfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard

50A087

William D. Harrison Regine Hock Leif H. Cox
Hydrologic and climatic balances for Gulkana and other glaciers

50A081

Matt Heavner Eran Hood Joshua Jones Rob Fatland Regine Hock
Monitoring Glacier Hydrology and Mass Balance on a Small Temperate Glacier Using a Sensor Web

50A080

Regine Hock John Hulth Rickard Pettersson
Mass balance of Storglaciären, Sweden – re-evaluation and error assessment

50A008

John Hulth Regine Hock
Statistical analysis of the spatial and temporal variability of winter mass balance of Storglaciären

50A070

Matthias Huss Andreas Bauder Martin Funk Regine Hock
A method to determine seasonal mass balances of Alpine glaciers since 1865

50A053

Matthias Huss Andreas Bauder Martin Funk
Stratigraphic versus fixed date mass balance

50A068

Bernhard Hynek Reinhard Böhm Wolfgang Schöner
Glacier Volume Changes 1871-1998 in Goldberggruppe (Hohe Tauern, Austria) extracted from historic contour maps and digital elevation models

50A067

Bernhard Hynek Wolfgang Schöner Reinhard Böhm Christine Kroisleitner
Detection and adjustment of inhomogenities in mass balance series in the Alps. Local and regional approach

50A073

Georg Kaser
Measuring the mass balance of mountain glaciers – an overview

50A060

Jack Kohler Gerit Rotschky Irek Sobota Jon Ove Hagen
MODIS albedo and regional mass balance of high Arctic glaciers

50A006

Vladimir Konovalov
Computation and mapping maximal altitude of snow line Zmax

50A062

Christine Kroisleitner Wolfgang Schöner Bernhard Hynek
A sensitivity study of mass balance monitoring networks of two glaciers in Hohe Tauern (Austria) - Can the influence of topography on the mass balance be used to design a monitoring network on the PC?

50A089

A.G. Krusic J.M. Licciardi M.L. Prentice
Modern and Early-Mid Pliocene ELAs in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

50A034

Michael Kuhn
The transfer of mass balance profiles b(h) to unmeasured glaciers

50A047

Li Zhongqin Wang Feiteng Li Huilin
Glacier volume changes over the past 43 years at Urumqi River basin, eastern Tianshan, China

50A035

Horst Machguth Frank Paul Martin Hoelzle Wilfried Haeberli
On the application of distributed glacier mass balance models for the extrapolation of point measurements to the entire glacier surface

50A037

Horst Machguth Frank Paul Martin Hoelzle Sven Kotlarski Wilfried Haeberli
Assessment of precipitation in the Swiss Alps by adaptive tuning of a distributed glacier mass balance model

50A088

Brooke Medley Anne W. Nolin Wendell Tangborn
Modeling the Mass Balance Sensitivity to Climate Change of Three Glaciers in the Cascade Mountains, USA

50A057

Kjetil Melvold Tron Laumann
A coupled mass-balance and ice-flow model for Midtdalsbreen; projection of further glacier length based on climate scenarios (CES)

50A056

Geir Moholdt Thorben Dunse Trond Eiken Jon Ove Hagen Thomas Vikhammer Schuler Ola Brandt
Geodetic mass balance of Vestfonna, Austfonna and Kvitöyjökulen ice caps since 1983

50A025

Marco Möller Christoph Schneider
Pattern of recent volume changes at Gran Campo Nevado ice cap: 2000-2007

50A064

Chiyuki Narama Koji Fujita Takeshi Kajiura Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov
Recent contribution of glacial meltwater in the Chon-Kyzylsuu river basin of Teskey Ala-Too range, Tien Shan mountains

50A059

Chiyuki Narama Andreas Kääb Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov
Recent glacier volume change in the Chon-Kyzylsuu river basin, Teskey Ala-Too range, Tien Shan mountains, using airphotos, topographic maps, and ALOS PRISM satellite stereo data

50A098

Francisco Navarro Ulf Jonsell Jaume Calvet Carmen Molina
Preliminary analysis of the mass balance of Hurd Peninsula glaciers, Livingston Island, Antarctica

50A069

Johanna Nemec Philippe Huybrechts Oleg Rybak Johannes Oerlemans
Reconstruction of the surface mass balance of Morteratschgletscher since 1865

50A042

Lindsey Nicholson Antoine Rabatel Hélène Castebrunet Roberta Garrida Jorge Marin Mariajose Herrera Vincent Favier
Mass balance monitoring of glaciers in the arid Andes of Norte Chico, Chile

50A086

Matt Nolan Jason Geck
Mass balance of McCall Glacier Alaska, 1956-2007, and relationship to recent and future climate change

50A020

Parviz Normatov
The state of glaciers of Tajikistan and adaptation of economic activities in conditions of global warming

50A050

Christopher Nuth Jack Kohler Harald Faste Aas Jon Ove Hagen Ola Brandt
Mass balance trends inferred from elevation changes in Northwest Svalbard

50A002

Johannes Oerlemans
Mass-balance modelling

50A014

Frank Paul Heidi Escher-Vetter Horst Machguth
Comparison of mass balances for Vernagtferner obtained from direct measurements and distributed modelling

50A009

Rainer Prinz Andrea Fischer Georg Kaser
Comparing Climate Information as Derived from Mean Specific Glacier Mass Balance and Ablation Stake Records

50A023

Al. Ramanathan Parmanatah Sharma Anurag Linda Shruthi Jose Pg
Preliminary studies on the Mass Balance of Chotta Shigri Glacier India

50A011

L. A. Rasmussen
South Cascade Glacier mass balance, 1935-2006

50A074

Blase A. Reardon Joel T. Harper Daniel B. Fagre
Mass balance sensitivity of cirque glaciers in the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains, Montana, U.S.A.

50A082

Stefan Rimkus Francesca Pellicciotti
Glacier surface melt modelling: inter-comparison of two energy-balance and one temperature-index approaches and their sensitivity to the input data quality

50A031

C. Rolstad R. Norland
Ground based interferometric radar for velocity measurements of the calving front of Kronebreen, Svalbard

50A058

Cecilie Rolstad Torborg Haug Miriam Jackson E. Elvehøj Ivar Maalen-Johansen
Geodetic mass balance of the western Svartisen ice cap in the periods 1968, 1985 and 2002

50A044

Dr. Rakhshan Roohi Arshad Ashraf Rozina Naz Dr. Bashir Ahmad
Glacier Inventory based on Remote Sensing Data in Pakistan

50A049

Gerit Rotschky Jack Kohler Elisabeth Isaksson
Spatio-temporal Variability of Snow Cover in Svalbard

50A077

Cameron Rye Neil Arnold Ian Willis
Modelling the 21st century mass balance of Svalbard glaciers using ERA-40 reanalysis and general circulation models

50A084

Wolfgang Schöner Reinhard Böhm Bernhard Hynek Gernot Koboltschnig Christine Kroisleitner
25 years of glacier mass balance monitoring in the Sonnblick region (Austrian Alps) – overview and major outcomes

50A085

Wolfgang Schöner Daniel Binder Ewald Brückl Reinhard Böhm Bernhard Hynek Christine Kroisleitner Thomas Wiesinger
On the accuracy of winter mass balance data from different measurement approaches

50A038

Thomas V. Schuler Thorben Dunse Trond Eiken Jon Ove Hagen Geir Moholdt Christopher Nuth
A 50 years accumulation history of Austfonna, Svalbard, derived from reanalysis data and field measurements

50A097

Dr Maria Shahgedanova Dr. Victor Popovnin Dr. Alexander Aleynikov
Assessment of Mass Changes in the Azarova Glacier (the Kodar Mountains, Eastern Siberia) Using Cartographic Method

50A096

Dr Maria Shahgedanova Dr Victor Popovnin
Investigating the sensitivity of glacier mass balance to changing meteorological conditions and surface enery balance on Djankuat Glacier, Northern Caucasus, Russia

50A091

Christopher A. Shuman Oddur Sigurdsson Jóna Finndís Jónsdóttir Richard S. Williams, Jr. Dorothy K. Hall
Change detection on Drangajökull, Iceland, from ICESat profiles and ground GPS survey data

50A030

Jean Emmanuel Sicart Regine Hock Delphine Six
Air temperature and glacier melting in the outer-tropics

50A039

Delphine Six Patrick Wagnon Marie Dumont Christian Vincent
Sensitivity of surface energy balance on Saint-Sorlin Glacier (French Alps) during summer 2006

50A017

Heinz Slupetzky Hans Wiesenegger
Experiences gained and conclusions derived from the long-term mass balance measurements on the Stubacher Sonnblickkees

50A022

Alvaro Soruco Christian Vincent Bernard Francou Pierre Ribstein Thomas Berger Jean Emmanuel Sicart
Mass balance of Zongo glacier, Bolivia, between 1956 and 2006. Using glaciological, hydrological and volumetric methods

50A099

Mikael Starck Peter Jansson Hans W. Linderholm Gunhild Rosqvist
Reconstructing glacier volume change through modelling with trial and error proxies

50A045

Johann Stötter Michael Kuhn Georg Kaser
Perspectives and limitations of laser scanning in glaciology – six years of experience in measuring volume changes of Hintereisferner

50A015

Dorothea Stumm Sean Fitzsimons Nicolas Cullen Martin Hoelzle Horst Machguth Brian Andersom Andrew Mackintosh
Mass Balances of Brewster Glacier, New Zealand, between 1978 and 2007

50A012

Emmanuel Thibert Christian Vincent
Best possible estimation of mass balance combining field data variance analysis and photogrammetry

50A040

Vincent Soruco Six Le Meur
Growth and decay of Argentiere glacier (Mont-Blanc area, France) from mass-balance and ice-flow analysis over the last fifty years.

50A028

Leanne Mary Wake Philippe Huybrechts Jason Box Edward Hanna Ives Janssens Glenn Milne
Surface mass balance changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet since 1866

50A016

Michael Winkler Irmgard Juen Thomas Mölg Georg Kaser
Measured and modelled sublimation as a key variable in the mass balance of tropical glaciers

50A018

Michael Zemp Martin Hoelzle Wilfried Haeberli
Six decades of available glacier mass balance observations – a review of the worldwide monitoring network