RGPS SWG Meeting Agenda

Feb 22-23, 2005

Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington

Hardisty Conference Center on the 6th floor

Day 1

8:30 Introduction/Logistics

8:45 NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program Overview - Abdalati

9:15 RGPS Meeting Objectives/Issues for SWG - Kwok

9:30 RGPS status - past year (JPL and ASF)

10:00 Break

10:15 Talks (20 min talk/5 min questions))

10:15

McPhee Upwelling of Arctic pycnocline associated with shear motion of sea ice

10:40

Hopkins Ice plate size distribution in the Arctic Basin

11:05

Hibler Tidal deformation of the sea ice cover

11:30

Martin The 10-cm SSM/I and AMSR ice thickness algorithm, what is its value?

11:55 Lunch

1:15 45 min talk on ICESat

Zwally ICESat: Mission and Science Results

2:00 Talks (20 min talk/5 min questions))

2:00

Hutchings Sub-diurnal sea ice deformation in the Spring Beaufort Sea: Comparison

to daily RGPS deformation

2:25

Coon Elastic Decohesion Model (EDM) for sea ice

2:50 Break

3:05

Sulsky Decohesion Applied to Small Regions in the Arctic

3:30

Maslowski Sea ice thickness distribution and deformation: 9-km model results

3:55

Schulson Frictional Sliding Coulombic Shear Faults within First-Year Sea Ice

4:20

Lindsay Assimilating RGPS trajectories into Lagrangian sea ice model

4:45

Laxon Cryosat and ice thickness

5:10

Zhang On the role of rheology in simulating sea ice flaws

5:35 Adjourn

Day 2

8:30 Talks (20 min talk/5 min questions)

8:30

Heinrichs Using RADARSAT data to evaluate AMSR-E ice concentration algorithms

8:55

Seifert GLOBICE (ESA/ESRIN ice motion project)

9:20

Yackel Sea ice/remote sensing components of CASES

9:45 Break

10:00 Talks

10:00

Holt Direct measurement of ice thickness with low frequency radar

10:25

Haarpaintner Operational Ice drift from enhanced resolution QuikScat/SeaWinds and ENVISAT ASAR Global Mode data (data)

10:50

Yu Ice thickness analysis

11:15 RADARSAT Acquisitions

11:45 Review of Issues for SWG

JGR – Special Section

Data Issues

RGPS resources/processing schedule

12:30 Adjourn