Session OSM 07

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Sensitivity of the Cryosphere: Past and Future

Convenors

Olga Solomina, Anders Carlson

Description

All components of the cryosphere - snow, river, lake and sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, frozen grounds - are extremely sensitive to climate changes. This session focuses on the sensitivity of the cryosphere on a wide range of time scales from annual to orbital and tectonic. We will consider the variations and trends in the cryosphere components in the past in relation to climate change with the focus on quantitative estimates of mass balance, area and volume changes of glaciers and ice sheets, and climatic impacts on the hydrologic system, sea ice and permafrost.

Areas of special interest are glacier and ice-sheet records and their climate forcings and contributions to sea-level variability, along with sea-ice records during “warm” periods in the Cenozoic (e.g., “Medieval Warm Period”, early Holocene, isotope stages 5e, 11, the Pliocene and Miocene). The progress in the modeling and projections of Earth’s paleo and future cryospheric components will also be discussed.

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Talks and Posters

Talks

Thursday, 14 February 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Olga Solomina, Anders Carlson

14:00 - 14:15
What paleo ice sheets can say about future sea-level rise

Anders Carlson

14:15 - 14:30
Melting of Northern Greenland during the last interglacial

Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu, Andreas Born

14:30 - 14:45
Exploring the potential of sea salt as a proxy for sea ice extent on glacial-interglacial timescales

James Levine, Xin Yang, Anna Jones, Eric Wolff

14:45 - 15:00
Highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) biomarkers as a new Antarctic sea-ice proxy in deep ocean glacial age sediments

Lewis Collins, Claire Allen, Jennifer Pike, Dominic Hodgson, Kaarina Weckstrom, Guillaume Masse

15:00 - 15:15
Sensitivity of the Greenland ice sheet to the Holocene thermal maximum

Benoit Lecavalier, Leanne Wake, Glenn Milne,, Shawn Marshall, Matthew Simpson, Philippe Huybrechts

15:15 - 15:30
Global and regional patterns in the Holocene glacier fluctuations records

Olga Solomina, Mikhail Alexandrin, Vladimir Matskovsky

Posters

Display: Wednesday, 13 February and Thursday, 14 February
Author attendance: Thursday 16:00 - 18:00
Chair: Olga Solomina, Anders Carlson

Mountain glaciers reaction on the Holocene climate changes in Central Asia in contrast to glaciers behavior in mountain systems of continental edges
Anna Agatova, Roman Nepop, Andrey Nazarov, Ljubov Orlova

Glacier expansion during the Late Quaternary in the monsoon dominated Goriganga valley, Central Himalaya, India
Sheikh Nawaz Ali, Rabiul Biswas, Anil Shukla, Navin Juyal

Projected 21st Century Decline Snow Cover Overlying the Arctic Sea Ice and Implications for the Sea Ice and Arctic Climate in CESM/CCSM
Benjamin Blazey

Detailed reconstructions of fluctuations of seven glaciers during the “Little Ice Age” in the Northern Caucasus Russian Federation
Irina Bushueva

Late Weichselian glacial history of the southern Yermak Plateau
Teena Chauhan, Riko Noormets, Tine. L. Rasmussen

High-resolution reconstruction of southwest Atlantic sea-ice and its role in the carbon cycle during marine isotope stages 3 and 2
Lewis Collins, Jennifer Pike, Claire Allen, Dominic Hodgson

Testing the GCM matrix method for indirectly coupling climate models to ice sheet models
Edward Gasson, Dan Lunt, Mark Siddall, David Pollard

Holocene Climate in Western Mongolia from an Altai Ice Core
Pierre-Alain Herren, Anja Eichler, Horst Machguth, Tatyana Papina, Leonhard Tobler, Alexander Zapf, Margit Schwikowski

Data-model comparison of the Late Weichselian Svalbard-Barents Sea ice sheet – for better contraints of postglacial isostatic uplift
Anne Hormes, Endre Gjermundsen, Willy Fjeldskaar

Cataloguing of glaciers of the river basins Koksu Aan Kyunes (Chinese part of Ile River Basin) by materials of space monitoring
Larissa Kogutenko, Alexandr Kokarev, Alexandr Yegorov

Change of glacial systems of Kazakhstan
Alexandr Kokarev, Alexandr Yegorov, Igor Severskiy

Inferring the Source Distribution of Meltwater Pulse 1A using Near- and Far-Field Data and Modelling Constraints
Jean Liu, Glenn A. Milne, Robert E. Kopp, Peter U. Clark

Glacier hazards caused by glacier shrinkage and climate change: case study of Russian Caucasus
Dmitry Petrakov

Holocene Climate vis-à-vis Glacier history from Garhwal Himalaya: A Multiproxy approach
Parminder S. Ranhotra, Amalava Bhattacharyya, Indra Bir Singh, N. Basavaiah

Environmental records in permafrost of East Siberian Arctic during the MIS2 Stadial and the MIS3 Interstadial
Natalia Rudaya, Andrei Andreev, Sebastian Wetterich, Vladimir Tumskoy, Lutz Schirrmeister

Reconstruction of the past 2000 years of ocean and glacier variability in Sermilik Fjord, SE Greenland, based on sediment archives
Andreea Stoican, Camilla S. Andresen, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Kurt K. Kjaer, Antoon Kuijpers, Guillaume Massé, Kaarina Weckström

Reconstructing spatial and temporal patterns of former glaciation along the Tian Shan
Arjen P. Stroeven, Casey Beel, Robin L. Blomdin, Marc W. Caffee, Yixin Chen, Alexandru T. Codilean, Natacha Gribenski, Jonathan M. Harbor, Clas Hättestrand, Jakob Heyman, Mikhail Ivanov, Christine Kassab, Yanan Li, Yingkui Li, Nathaniel A. Lifton,, Gengnian Liu, Dmitry Petrakov, Irina Rogozhina, Ryskul Usubaliev

Evaluation of the sea ice proxy IP25 against observational and diatom proxy data in the SW Labrador Sea
Kaarina Weckström, Guillaume Massé, Lewis Collins, Sami Hanhijärvi, Ioanna Bouloubassi, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Sabine Schmidt, Thorbjørn Andersen, Morten Andersen, Brian Hill, Antoon Kuijpers