TER71 - Arctic snow and ice in a warming climate

Over the past several decades snow and glaciers within the northern hemisphere have evolved in response to warming air temperatures. Quantifying and characterizing these changes are important for understanding current, and future cryospheric evolution, which have cascading impacts to downstream terrestrial and marine environments. Environment and Climate Change Canada, together with the Canadian Space Agency, are developing a new Canadian radar satellite mission (the Terrestrial Snow Mass Mission; TSMM) to pursue these objectives. We seek presentations that report ongoing terrestrial snow and surface glacier mass balance changes and their implications in the Arctic, with an emphasis on information that will help tune the science objectives of TSMM in the Arctic. Delineating impacts on local communities, from traditional knowledge or testimonies, is greatly encouraged. Methodically diverse approaches encompassing field observations, Indigenous knowledge, modeling and/or remote sensing techniques are welcomed. 

Co-Chairs: Benoit Montpetit, Environment and Climate Change Canada 

Danielle Hallé, University of Waterloo 

Courtney Bayer, Environment and Climate Change Canada 

Wesley Van Wychen, University of Waterloo 

Peter Wray, University of Waterloo