ISSN 0019–1043 Ice News Bulletin of the International Glaciological Society Number 165 2nd Issue 2014 Contents 2 From the Editor 17 The Sea Ice Meeting 4 Recent work Report from the Hobart Sea Ice Symposium 4 Finland 25 First Circular: International Symposium 4 Terrrestrial snow on Contemporary Ice-Sheet Dynamics, 6 Atmospheric snow Cambridge. UK, August 2015 6 Ice physics and chemistry 29 Second Circular: International Symposium 7 Surface albedo and energy balance on Glaciology in High-Mountain Asia, 8 Ice sheet and glacier dynamics Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2015 10 Sea ice 37 News 11 Lake ice 37 Report from the Third International Summer 12 Abbreviations School in Glaciology, McCarthy, Alaska, 13 International Glaciological Society August 2014 13 Journal of Glaciology 40 Glaciological diary 15 Annals of Glaciology 55(65) 43 New members 15 Annals of Glaciology 55(68) 16 Annals of Glaciology 56(69) 16 Annals of Glaciology 56(70) Cover picture: Pressure ridges on the sea ice near Scott Base, Antarctica. Photograph by Michael Studinger. EXCLUSION CLAUSE. 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Magnús Már Magnússon Secretary General 3 Recent work Finland TERRESTRIAL SNOW products are H11 (Snow status (dry/wet) by MW radiometry) and H12 (Effective snow cover by VIS/ Satellite remote sensing of snow IR radiometry). Products H10, H12 and H13 are Jouni Pulliainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Kari Luojus, developed in co-operation with the Turkish State Lenna Leppänen, Matias Takala (FMI) Meteorological Service (TSMS) in such a way that The FMI Arctic research unit is responsible for FMI is responsible for flat areas and TSMS for several multi-national research initiatives aim- mountainous areas. FMI alone is responsible for ing at the exploitation of Earth Observation data the H11 product. All snow products are validated in monitoring aspects of the Earth’s cryosphere. on a yearly basis against relevant ground truth Below are described some of the activities con- data. Hydrological validation is performed by ducted in recent years, where the unit has led a assimilating snow product results with the hydro- research consortium. logical model VIC (Variable Infiltration Capacity). ESA DUE GlobSnow FMI validates products over Finland. The efforts of the European Space Agency (ESA) ESA CoReH2O funded GlobSnow project has resulted in two Between 2009 and 2013 several research studies hemispherical-scale records of snow parame- related to the development of the proposed ters intended for climate research purposes. The ESA CoReH2O (Cold Regions Hydrology High- datasets contain satellite-retrieved information Resolution Observatory) satellite mission were on snow extent (SE) and snow water equivalent conducted. CoReH2O was a candidate 7th (SWE) extending more than 15 and 30 years re- Earth Explorer Core mission by the European spectively. The dataset on snow extent is based on Space Agency (ESA). The studies consisted both optical data of Envisat AATSR and ERS-2 ATSR-2 of science studies addressing aspects such as sensors covering the Northern Hemisphere be- the theoretical basis of forward models and the tween 1995 and 2012. The record on snow water synergistic use of CoReH2O with other satellite equivalent is produced using a combination of systems, as well as experimental campaigns. A passive microwave radiometer and ground-based significant contribution of FMI was related to the weather station data. Recent efforts within the lead of the main experimental campaign designed GlobSnow project include the further develop- to provide reference data for CoReH2O algorithm ment of the optical SE retrieval methodology for development. The NoSREx (Nordic Snow Radar NPP Suomi VIIRS data and preparation for Sen- Experiment) campaign was conducted between tinel-3 OLCI and SLSTR utilization. Additionally, 2009 and 2013 at the FMI Arctic Research the combination of the optical SE and the passive Centre in Sodankylä, Finland. The campaign microwave SWE products is been investigated aimed to provide season-long time-series of within the GlobSnow project. The project is being microwave backscatter observations form snow coordinated by the Finnish Meteorological Insti- covered terrain; both stationary tower-based and tute (FMI). airborne instruments (the ESA SnowScat and EUMETSAT H-SAF SnowSAR experimental sensors) were applied. The aim of the EUMETSAT H-SAF (Hydro Satel- Backscatter (radar) measurements of snow cover lite Application Facility) project is to develop and were complemented by microwave emission operate near-real-time products that will ben- (radiometer) observations and state-of-the-art in efit hydrology research and provide data for the situ observations of snow, soil and atmospheric operation of hydropower plants.