10th EARSeL workshop on Land Ice and Snow
Workshop Programme
Final workshop programme (pdf, 332kB)
Keynote Speakers:
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Prof. Dr. Julia Boike (AWI, Germany)
Arctic Permafrost: The Importance of Snow -
Rodica Nitu (Global Cryosphere Watch, WMO)
Global cryosphere watch – status and future plans -
Dr. Carolina Adler (Mountain Research Initiative, Switzerland)
The mountain cryosphere in a changing climate: a view from within science-policy processes
Monday, 6rd February
| Welcome and opening | |
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| 8:00 - 9:30 |
Registration and coffee / tea |
| 9:30 - 09:45 |
Jean-Christophe Schyns (EARSeL President) Welcome |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Stefan Wunderle (Chair EARSeL SIG Remote Sensing of Land Ice and Snow) Welcome and Workshop Overview Presentation (.pdf) |
| Cryosphere in polar regions Chair: Stefan Wunderle | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Rodica Nitu (keynote) (Global Cryosphere Watch - WMO, Switzerland) Global Cryosphere Watch – Status and Future Plans WMO - GCOS Presentation (.pdf) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 |
Laura Aguilar (Dept. of Geography, University College London, United Kingdom), Jan-Peter Muller, Michel Tsamados, Thomas Johnson, Said Kharbouche MISR Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Albedo 2000-2022 Product Creation and Trend Analysis Presentation (.pdf) |
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Horst Machguth (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Andrew Tedstone Greenland Surface Runoff Extent, Mapped From Daily MODIS Imagery 2000 To 2021 Presentation (.pdf) |
| 11:00 - 11:20 |
Andrew Tedstone (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Horst Machguth, Julien Ducrey, Nicole Clerx, Nicolas Jullien, Paolo Colosio, Stef Lhermitte, Marco Tedesco, Dirk van As Meltwater Retention Around the Greenland Ice Sheet Runoff Limit |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
Angelika Humbert (Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany), Markus Appel, Matthias Bohnen, Rene Griesbach, Veit Helm, Ingmar Nitzsche, Ralf Müller Benchmarking Ice Mechanical Simulations at Supraglacial Lakes with Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing Presentation (pdf) |
| 11:40 - 13:00 |
Lunch break | Snow cover (basics and operational applications) Chair: Kathrin Nägeli |
| 13:00 - 13:20 |
Bojan Bojkov (EUMETSAT, Germany) EUMETSAT’s Interest in Snow Detection from Space |
| 13:20 - 13:40 |
Jeff Dozier (University of California, United States of America) Retrieval of Subpixel Snow Albedo and Temperature from Visible through Thermal Infrared Sensing Presentation (pdf) |
| 13:40 - 14:00 |
Zuhal Akyurek (Middle East Technical University, Turkey), Cagri Karaman, Semih Kuter, Berkay Akpinar, Ali Arda Sorman Investigating the Snow Dynamics over Mountainous Terrains from EUMETSAT HSAF Snow Cover Product-H10 Presentation (pdf) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Kerttu Kouki (Finnish Meteorological Insitute, Finland), Kari Luojus, Aku Riihelä Evaluation of Snow Cover Properties in ERA5 with Several Satellite-based Datasets in Northern Hemisphere in Spring 1982-2018 Presentation (pdf) |
Poster Session I Chair: Kathrin Nägeli |
| 14:20 - 14:50 |
Short poster presentations (2min/poster) Kenta Ochi (ECMWF, United Kingdom), Patricia de Rosnay, David Fairbairn Christoph Herbert (ECMWF, United Kingdom), Patricia de Rosnay, David Fairbairn, Kenta Ochi, Peter Weston Adrián Melón-Nava (Department of Geography and Geology. Universidad de León, Spain), Javier Santos-González, Amelia Gómez-Villar, Andrés Merino Sebastian Rößler, Andreas Dietz (German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), Germany), Jonas Köhler, Celia Baumhoer Sanghee Jun (Korea Institude of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, South Korea), Kyung-Hee Seol, In-Hyuk Kwon, Myung-Seo Koo Marco Mazzolini (Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway), Désirée Treichler, Kristoffer Aalstad, Esteban Alonso-González Mariel Dirscherl (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Andreas Dietz, Celia Baumhoer, Sebastian Roessler, Claudia Kuenzer Celia Amélie Baumhoer (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Mariel Dirscherl, Konrad Heidler, Erik Loebel, Ingmar Nitze, Saurabh Kaushik, Andreas Dietz Anders U. Waldeland, Arnt B. Salberg, David Gustavfsson, Jarle H. Reksten, Øivind D. Trier, Rune Solberg (Norwegian Computing Center, Norway) Céline Portenier (Institute of Geography and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland), Martina Hasler, Stefan Wunderle Kathrin Naegeli (Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland), Dominik Amschwand, Martin Hoelzle |
| 14:50 - 15:40 |
Poster session with coffee break |
| Snow Hydrology – Snow Water Equivalent Chair: Zuhal Akyurek | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 |
Kari Luojus (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland), Jouni Pulliainen, Matias Takala, Pinja Venäläinen, Mikko Moisander, Lina Zschenderlein, Chris Derksen, Colleen Mortimer, Lawrence Mudryk, Thomas Nagler, Gabriele Schwaizer, Anna-Maria Trofaier Efforts to Improve the Northern Hemisphere Snow Water Equivalent Retrievals in the ESA CCI+ Snow Project Presentation (pdf) |
| 16:00 - 16:20 |
Colleen Mortimer (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada), Haorui Sun, Yiwen Fang, Steve Margulis, Lawrence Mudryk, Chris Derksen Integrating Snow Mass Estimates for Mountain Areas in the Snow CCI+ SWE Product Presentation (pdf) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
Valentina Premier (Institute for Earth Observation, Eurac Research, Italy), Carlo Marin, Giacomo Bertoldi, Riccardo Barella, Claudia Notarnicola On the Use of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Product to Generate SWE Maps Presentation (pdf) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 |
Kristina Belinska (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany), Georg Fischer, Julia Boike, Irena Hajnsek Assessing the Potential Interferometric and Polarimetric SAR Data for the Retrieval of Snow Water Equivalent Presentation (pdf) |
| 17:00 - 17:20 |
Nora Krebs (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Paul Schattan, Sascha Oswald, Martin Schrön, Martin Rutzinger, Johann Stötter Snow from space: combined analysis of Snow Water Equivalent from Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensors and Fractional Snow Cover products from Sentinel and MODIS Presentation (pdf) |
17:20 - 17:40 |
Lina Zschenderlein (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland), Kari Luojus, Matias Takala, Pinja Venäläinen, Jouni Pulliainen Comparison of Passive Microwave Dry Snow Detection Algorithms and Application to SWE Retrieval Presentation (pdf) |
18:30 |
Ice Breaker Reception |
Tuesday, 7th February
| 7:00 - 7:45 |
Fun Run along river Aare for interested participants |
| Microwave technologies to observe the Cryosphere Chair: Stefan Wunderle | |
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| 8:20 - 8:40 |
Charles Werner (Gamma Remote Sensing AG, Switzerland), Andreas Wiesmann, Rafael Caduff, Othmar Frey, Urs Wegmüller, Mike Schwank, Christian Mätzler, Martin Suess Measuring Coherent Polarimetric Backscatter Time-Series Covering 1-40 GHz with the ESA WBSCAT Scatterometer Presentation (pdf) |
| 8:40 - 9:00 |
Marcel Stefko (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Silvan Leinss, Othmar Frey, Irena Hajnsek Radar Observations of Coherent Backscatter Enhancement for Snow Parameter Estimation |
| 9:00 - 9:20 |
Othmar Frey (Gamma Remote Sensing AG / ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Andreas Wiesmann, Charles Werner, Rafael Caduff, Henning Löwe, Matthias Jaggi Time Series Of Vertical Snow Profiles Measured By SAR Tomographic Profiling - A Comparison With Reference Snow Characterizations |
| 9:20 - 9:40 |
Richard Kelly (University of Waterloo, Canada), Aaron Thompson, Peter Toose, Chris Derksen, Alex Langlois, Alex Roy, Laura Brown, Aaron Berg, Jim Hodgson, Adriano Meta The Airborne Cryosphere-Observing SAR System (CryoSAR): Season-long Airborne and Ground-based Observations of Terrestrial Snow and Lake Ice During Fall 2022 and Winter 2023 Presentation (pdf) |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
Thomas Nagler (ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria), Helmut Rott, Stefan Scheiblauer, Nico Mölg, Lars Keuris, Ralf Horn, Jens Fischer, Alberto Moreira, Julia Kubanek A Field Campaign on InSAR Retrieval of Snow Mass in Alpine Terrain Presentation (pdf) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee break | Intertwined Essential Climate Variables: Chair: Gabriele Schwaizer Permafrost and Snow |
| 10:30 - 10:50 |
Julia Boike (keynote) (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany), Inge Grünberg, Brian Groenke, Julia Martin, Moritz Langer Arctic Permafrost: The Importance of Snow Presentation (pdf) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
Roberto Salzano (National Research Council of Italy, Italy), Giulio Esposito, Rosamaria Salvatori The Integrated Description of the Snow Cover in Polar Areas: a Multi-scale and Multi-platform Solution Presentation (pdf) |
| 11:10 - 11:30 |
Sonam Wangchuk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands), Kevin Schaefer, Jorien Vonk, Sander Veraverbeke Unraveling Fire Permafrost Interactions in Northeastern Siberian Tundra Using InSAR and Machine Learning Presentation (pdf) |
| 11:30 - 11:50 |
Arnab Singh (Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal), Darwin Rana, Sangya Mishra, Dibas Shrestha Modeling Permafrost Distribution Using Machine Learning Models In Khumbu Region, Nepal Presentation (pdf) |
| 11:50 - 13:30 |
Lunch break | ESA CCI+ Snow / SnowPEx+ Chair: Julia Boike |
| 13:30 - 13:50 |
Gabriele Schwaizer (ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria), Thomas Nagler, Nico Mölg, Lars Keuris, Sari Metsämäki, Carlo Marin, Richard Essery, Anna Maria Trofaier Recent Developments Towards The Upcoming Snow Cover Fraction Climate Research Data Package V3.0 From Terra MODIS And Sentinel-3 SLSTR Data Within ESA CCI+ Snow Presentation (pdf) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 |
Xiongxin Xiao (Institute of Geography and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland), Andreas Wiesmann, Kathrin Naegeli, Valentina Premier, Stefan Wunderle 40 Years Times Series of Global Snow Cover Fraction Based on AVHRR Data - First Analysis and Results within ESA CCI+ Snow Project Presentation (pdf) |
| 14:10 - 14:30 |
Rune Solberg (Norwegian Computing Center, Norway), Øystein Rudjord, Arnt-Børre Salberg, Mari Anne Killie, Steinar Eastwood, Atle Sørensen, Carlo Marin, Valentina Premier New 38-Year Time Series of Daily, Global Fractional Snow Cover Maps Presentation (pdf) |
14:30 - 14:50 |
Sari Johanna Metsämäki (Finnish Environment Institute, Finland), Sakari Väkevä, Gabriele Schwaizer, Lars Keuris, Mikko Moisander, Pinja Venäläinen, Kari Luojus, Colleen Mortimer, Thomas Nagler Evaluation of Snow Cover Extent Products Against In-situ Snow Depth Measurements Within ESA SnowPEx+ Presentation (pdf) |
Poster Session II Chair: Helga Weber |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Short poster presentations (2min/poster) Thomas Nagler (ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria), Lucia Felbauer, Nico Mölg, Gabriele Schwaizer, Stefan Scheiblauer, Sari Metsämäki, Lars Keuris, Helmut Rott, Igor Appel, Edward Bair, Che Tao, Walter Clark, Christopher Crawford, Jeff Dozier, Cho Eunsang, Dorothy Hall, Masahiro Hori, George Riggs, Karl Rittger, David Robinson, Peter Romanov, Timbo Stillinger, Matias Takala, Elzbieta Wisniewski, Michael Kern, Anna Maria Trofaier, Philippe Goryl Sonia Dupuis (Institute of Geography and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland), Frank Göttsche, Sebastian Westermann, Stefan Wunderle Sara Arioli (Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, France), Ghislain Picard, Simon Gascoin, Laurent Arnaud, Esteban Alonso-Gonzalez Kirsikka Heinilä (Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland), Sari Metsämäki, Sakari Väkevä, Kari Luojus, Gabriele Schwaizer Steven Margulis, Simon Yueh, Elias Deeb, Jeff Dozier (University of California, United States of America), Kelly Elder, Dara Entekhabi, Manuela Girotto, Ethan Gutmann, Adrian Harpold, Mimi Hughes, Dennis Lettenmaier, Dongyue Li, Glen Liston, Jessica Lundquist, Keith Musselman, McKenzie Skiles Eduard Khachatrian (The Arctic University of Norway, Norway), Wolfgang Dierking, Saloua Chlaily, Torbjørn Eltoft, Frode Dinessen, Nick Hughes, Andrea Marinoni Ian A. Brown (Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden), Mikael Hovemyr Riccardo Barella, Carlo Marin (EURAC Research, Institute for Earth Observation, Italy), Francesca Carletti, Loic Brouet, Mathias Bavay, Claudia Notarnicola Pinja Venäläinen (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland), Kari Luojus, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Mikko Moisander, Matias Takala, Colleen Mortimer |
| 15:10 - 16:00 |
Poster session with coffee break |
| Mountain snow Chair: Helga Weber | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 |
Carolina Adler (keynote) (Mountain Research Initiative, University of Bern, Switzerland) The Mountain Cryosphere in a Changing Climate: a View from Within Science-Policy Processes Presentation (pdf) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 |
Sangya Mishra (Tribhuvan University, Nepal), Darwin Rana, Arnab Singh, Dibas Shrestha Snow Cover Dynamics In The Hindu-Kush Himalayas Using Improved Modis Snow Products Presentation (pdf) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 |
Hendrik Wulf (ExoLabs GmbH, Switzerland), Bernhard Sassik, Gillian Milani, Reik Leiterer Next-Generation Snow Products For Entire Mountain Ranges Presentation (pdf) |
| 17:00 - 17:20 |
Semih Kuter (Çankırı Karatekin University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Engineering, Turkey), Cansu Aksu, Zuhal Akyurek Snow Cover Classification over Mountainous Terrains at Optical Wavelengths by Machine Learning: Existing Challenges and New Opportunities Presentation (pdf) |
| 17:20 - 17:40 |
Lars Keuris (ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria), Markus Hetzenecker, Gabriele Schwaizer, Thomas Nagler, Nico Mölg Near-Real-Time Snow Cover Fraction Estimation using Linear Spectral Unmixing of Sentinel-2 MSI Top-of-Atmosphere Reflectance Data Presentation (pdf) |
| 17:40 - 18:000 |
Shiyi Li (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Lanqing Huang, Philipp Bernhard, Irena Hajnsek High-resolution Wet Snow Mapping in the Karakoram: A Probabilistic Method Based on SAR Imagery and Topography Data Presentation (pdf) |
19:00 |
Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, 5th February
| Remotely sensed snow height Chair: Colleen Mortimer | |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 |
Joschka Geissler (Faculty of Environment and Natural Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany), Markus Weiler Machine Learning and LiDAR Snowheight Maps from UAVs Reveal Clusters of Snow Variability in a Sub-Alpine Forest. Presentation (pdf) |
| 9:20 - 9:40 |
Reuma Arav (Dept. of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Austria), Katharina Andres, Florian Poeppl, Bernhard Hoefle, Norbert Pfeifer Tracing Snow Cover Dynamics Using 4D Level Sets on Near-Continuous Terrestrial Laser Time Series Scans Presentation (pdf) |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
Désirée Treichler (University of Oslo, Norway), Marco Mazzolini, Livia Piermattei, Clare Webster, Luc Girod Spaceborne Snow Depth Measurements From ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry Presentation (pdf) |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
Coffee break |
| Long time series of snow cover based on Chair: Colleen Mortimer AVHRR and Sentinel-3 | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Helga Weber (Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland), Christoph Neuhaus, Valentina Premier, Arnt-Børre Salberg, Stefan Wunderle Less White: Decreasing Alpine Snow Cover derived from a 40-year AVHRR Snow Climatology Presentation (pdf) |
| 11:00 - 11:20 |
Andreas Dietz (DFD-LAX OP - Dynamik der Landoberfläche, Germany), Sebastian Roessler, Stefanie Holzwarth 36 Years of Daily Snow Cover Data for Europe Based on AVHRR Data: Results from the DLR TIMELINE Project Presentation (pdf) |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
Hannah Augustin (Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Austria), Helga Weber, Martin Sudmanns, Lucas van der Meer, Dirk Tiede, Stefan Wunderle, Christoph Neuhaus, Andrea Baraldi Semantic Earth Observation Data Cube of AVHRR and Sentinel-3 SLSTR Data for Exploratory EO Analysis Presentation (pdf) |
| 11:40 - 13:00 |
Lunch break | Educational programs and activities Chair: Kathrin Nägeli |
| 13:00 - 13:20 |
Lena Hellmann, Lea Geissmann (Girls on Ice Switzerland, Switzerland), Kathrin Naegeli, Girls on Ice Switzerland Team From Glacier to Classroom: Peer-to-Peer Communication to Foster Curiosity in Science Presentation (pdf) |
| 13:20 - 13:40 |
Helga Weber (Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland), Aizirek Mederbek, Anouk Volery, Dilara Kim, Perizat Imanalieva, Martina Barandun Getting Inspired by the Cryosphere: A Science Program to Empower Young Women in Central Asia Presentation (pdf) |
| 13:40 - 14:00 |
Dilara Kim (Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, Germany), Helga Weber, Martina Barandun Addressing Gender Inequality in STEM: Cryospheric Excursions in Central Asia Presentation (pdf) |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
Coffee break |
| Glaciers Chair: Stefan Wunderle | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Gabriele Schwaizer (ENVEO IT GmbH, Austria), Johanna Nemec, Thomas Nagler, Nico Mölg, Frank Paul Automated Classification of Glacier Facies From Sentinel-2 And Landsat Data |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Sahra Abdullahi (German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany), David Burgess, Birgit Wessel, Achim Roth TanDEM-X Elevation Data For Mass Balance Estimation |
| 14:20 - 14:40 |
Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa (International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal), Sudan Bikash Maharjan Spatial Distribution and Decadal Change of Glaciers in the Indus Basin since the 1990s Presentation (pdf) |
| 15:20 - 15:30 |
Closing session (Stefan Wunderle) | 15:30 - 16:30 |
Chill out beer and beverages offered by Remote Sensing Research Group, University of Bern, Switzerland |
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