4 March 2005

 

Sea Ice

 

• Lead: Walt Meier, Mark Drinkwater?
  (italics represent additions/changes to parameters)
• extent/edge position – Agnew
• motion – Meier
• concentration – Comiso/Nishio
• thickness/freeboard– Meier/Nishio
• snow depth on ice - Yackel
• floe size distribution – Roger De Abreu, Ron Kwok
• ridging density/ridge heights – Ron Kwok (RGPS)
• meltponds – Yackel
• ice age/stage of development – Comiso
• leads and polynyas – Comiso
• icebergs – CIS
• ice volume/mass and flux
• new ice formation (brine extrusion)
• melt onset, length of melt season
• ice strength, state of decay (freeze-up, breakup_
• brine volume, frost flowers, snow grain size
• remote sensing – Mark Drinkwater
• Other potential contributors/reviews
• Florence Fetterer, NSIDC
• Roger Barry, NSIDC
• Mark Serreze, NSIDC (climate effects)
• Ron Kwok, JPL (Radarsat)
• Don Perovich, CRREL (thermo., meltponds)
• Martin Jeffries, UAF (meltpond, brine volume)
• Jay Zwally, Goddard (ICESat)
• Anthony Worby
• Vasily Smolyane
• Seymour Laxon
• Mike Van Woert (or other NIC rep)
• Input from the modeling community?
• Greg Flato, MSC U Vic.
• Tom Carrieres, CIS (operational models)
• Cecilia Bitz, APL (NCAR CCSM)
• Marika Holland, NCAR (CCSM)
• Bill Hibler (UAF)

 

Lake/River Ice

• Lead: Claude Duguay will undertake or assign to appropriate people.
• ?
• Other potential contributors:
• Ross Brown, MSC
• Terry Prowse, NWRI
• Anne Walker, MSC
• Dorothy Hall, Goddard
• Larry Smith, UCLA
• Martin Jeffries, UAF
• Monique Bernier (SAR and river ice), INRS-ETE (Univ. Quebec)
• need to find contacts for lake/river ice in SH?

 

Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground

• Lead: Sharon Smith and/or Jerry Brown
• Seasonally frozen ground - Tingjun Zhang
• Remote sensing – Tingjun Zhang, Vlad Romanovsky, Claude Duguay?
• Active layer – Fritz Nelson
• Modeling – Vlad Romanovsky
• Other potential contributors:
• Jerry Brown
• Jim Bockheim
• Charles Tarnocai

 

Snow Cover

• Lead: Anne Walker
• operational snow cover, CLPP - Don Cline
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• Other potential contributors:
• Helmut Rott – active microwave
• Christian Mather
• Richard Armstrong
• Anne Nolin – grain size

 

Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Ice Caps

• Lead: Ken Jezek
• Motivation – Ken Jezek
• Hazards – Martin Sharp
• Physical processes – Laurence Gray, Ken Jezek
• Water resource assessment – Gray to contact Mike Demuth
• Shortcomings of current systems – Jezek, Gray, Sharp,
• Koni Steffen
• Other potential contributors:
• Jon Bamber – mass balance, measurement systems
• David Vaughn
• Helmut Rott
• Xiao Cunde
• Ted Scambos – remote sensing

 

Solid Precipitation

• Lead: Paul Joe
• Barry Goodison
• Daqing Yang
• Other potential contributors:
• Bruno Rudolf

 

Surface Albedo and Temperature

• Lead: Joey Comiso
• Albedo - Jeff Key
• Other potential contributors:
• Don Perovich (CRREL) - albedo
• Mark Tschudi (CU) – albedo
• Julienne Stroeve – ice sheets albedo
• Ed Andreas – surface energy budget

 

Hazards

• Lead: ?
• Paul Joe
• Vladimir Ryabinin
• Other potential contributors:
• ?

 

Linkages

• Lead: ?
• IGOS – Colin Summerhayes
• IPY – Jezek
• WCRP/WMO - Ryabinin
• Other potential contributors:
• Jeff Kargel – GLIMS
• Bob Thomas – PARCA
• Bob Bindschadler - IPY