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We have chosen to discuss papers under the broad umbrella of “Applications and implications of climatically forced cryospheric change”.
This should be a rich vein that sustains us the whole semester - it includes things like:
- what the changing cryosphere can tell us about climate/pollution/earth system interactions
- how changing cryosphere impacts water/society/sea level/ecosystems …
- both new opportunities and potential risks/hazards of a changing cryopshere
- all the different kinds of cryopsheric systems (good IPCC description of components of the cryopshere: IPCC AR4 WG1 Fig. 4.1 here)
Upcoming paper
On 22nd January we will discuss as a team:
Wijngaard, R. R., Steiner, J. F., Kraaijenbrink, P. D. A., Klug, C., Adhikari, S., Banerjee, A., et al. (2019). Modeling the Response of the Langtang Glacier and the Hintereisferner to a Changing Climate Since the Little Ice Age. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7(June), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00143
Looking further ahead ….
We will close this seminar on 30th Janaury with a wider view on climatology discussing
Steffen, W., Rockström, J., Richardson, K., Lenton, T. M., Folke, C., Liverman, D., et al. (2018). Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(33), 8252–8259. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810141115
Suggested papers (an incomplete list)
- Ambrosini, R., Azzoni, R. S., Pittino, F., Diolaiuti, G., Franzetti, A., & Parolini, M. (2019). First evidence of microplastic contamination in the supraglacial debris of an alpine glacier. Environmental Pollution, 253, 297–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.07.005
- Galos, S. P., Klug, C., Maussion, F., Covi, F., Nicholson, L., Rieg, L., et al. (2017). Reanalysis of a 10-year record (2004–2013) of seasonal mass balances at Langenferner/Vedretta Lunga, Ortler Alps, Italy. The Cryosphere, 11(3), 1417–1439. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1417-2017
- Marzeion, B., Cogley, J. G., Richter, K., & Parkes, D. (2014). Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes. Science, 345(6199), 919–921. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1254702
- O’Neel, S., McNeil, C., Sass, L. C., Florentine, C., Baker, E. H., Peitzsch, E., et al. (2019). Reanalysis of the US Geological Survey Benchmark Glaciers: long-term insight into climate forcing of glacier mass balance. Journal of Glaciology, 65(253), 850–866. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.66
- Olson, M., Rupper, S., & Shean, D. E. (2019). Terrain Induced Biases in Clear-Sky Shortwave Radiation Due to Digital Elevation Model Resolution for Glaciers in Complex Terrain. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7(August), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00216
- Steffen, W., Rockström, J., Richardson, K., Lenton, T. M., Folke, C., Liverman, D., et al. (2018). Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(33), 8252–8259. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810141115
- Wijngaard, R. R., Steiner, J. F., Kraaijenbrink, P. D. A., Klug, C., Adhikari, S., Banerjee, A., et al. (2019). Modeling the Response of the Langtang Glacier and the Hintereisferner to a Changing Climate Since the Little Ice Age. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7(June), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00143
Past papers
On 16th January we discussed as a team:
- Galos, S. P., Klug, C., Maussion, F., Covi, F., Nicholson, L., Rieg, L., et al. (2017). Reanalysis of a 10-year record (2004–2013) of seasonal mass balances at Langenferner/Vedretta Lunga, Ortler Alps, Italy. The Cryosphere, 11(3), 1417–1439. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1417-2017
With this paper we closed the mass balance reanalyses trilogy from the last two sessions.
On 12th December Annelies presented a recent paper from Hintereisferner:
- Klug, C., Bollmann, E., Galos, S. P., Nicholson, L., Prinz, R., Rieg, L., et al. (2018). Geodetic reanalysis of annual glaciological mass balances (2001-2011) of Hintereisferner, Austria. The Cryosphere, 12, 833–849. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-833-2018
On 5th December Andreas presented:
- O’Neel, S., McNeil, C., Sass, L. C., Florentine, C., Baker, E. H., Peitzsch, E., et al. (2019). Reanalysis of the US Geological Survey Benchmark Glaciers: long-term insight into climate forcing of glacier mass balance. Journal of Glaciology, 65(253), 850–866. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.66
On 28th November we took a short-handed decision to attend the Master defenses of P. Raffler and M. Stichaner.
On 21st November Daniel presented a key paper about boudary layer structure above a mountian glacier. Thank you for guiding us through the math.
- Denby, B., & Smeets, C. J. P. P. (2000). Derivation of Turbulent Flux Profiles and Roughness Lengths from Katabatic Flow Dynamics. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 39(9), 1601–1612. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<1601:DOTFPA>2.0.CO;2
On 07th November we dicussed after an introduction from Maximilian:
- Ambrosini, R., Azzoni, R. S., Pittino, F., Diolaiuti, G., Franzetti, A., & Parolini, M. (2019). First evidence of microplastic contamination in the supraglacial debris of an alpine glacier. Environmental Pollution, 253, 297–301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.07.005
On 24th October we dicussed after an introduction from Carlo:
- Staudacher, J., Winkler, M. and Olefs, M.: Modelling spatial snow drift patterns using wind fields and negative openess, Proceedings, Int. Snow Sci. Work. Innsbruck, Austria, 2018, 1181–1185, 2018.
On 17th October Rainer gave an overview about
- The publication process, journal metrics and predatory publishing. You’ll find the presentation in the literature folder as well as an example paper from Njeri Mwaniki et al. 2018
On 10th October we dicussed after an introduction from Alzbeta:
- Marzeion, B., Cogley, J. G., Richter, K., & Parkes, D. (2014). Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes. Science, 345(6199), 919–921. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1254702