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Day 1 - 13.11.2012
Welcome and Introduction			Ryabinin	Vladimir	Session Chair
09:30	10:00	Welcome and introductory words (few words from ESA, CliC and EGU and welcome from ESA)	(ESA, EGU, CliC)
10:00	10:30	Key note from ESA IPY Satellite Earth Observation Achievements and Perspectives for Future Coordinated Cryosphere Observations	Drinkwater	Mark	ESA
10:30	11:00	Key note from CliC (scientific strategy and objectives from CliC)	Steffen	Konrad	Univ. of Colorado, USA, Representing CliC SSG
11:00	11:30	Key note from EGU (key issues in EO for Cryosphere research	Bamber	Jonathan	Univ. of Bristol, Representing EGU
11:30	11:50	Coffee Break
Lakes, rivers, hydrology and permafrost			Duguay	Claude	Session Chair
Lakes, rivers, hydrology and permafrost			Heim	Birgit	Session Chair
11:50	12:10	SAR Interferometry for Surface Deformation Monitoring on Permafrost Areas in Alaska	Strozzi	Tazio	Gamma Remote Sensing
12:10	12:30	Application of satellite Data and in situ Observations for Studies of Ice and Snow Regime of Lakes and internal Seas	Kouraev	Alexei	LEGOS-OMP
12:30	12:50	Response of Ice Cover in shallow Arctic Lakes to contemporary climate Conditions : SAR Data Analysis and Modeling	Surdu	Cristina	University of Waterloo
12:50	13:10	Global Soil Frost Detection Using L-Band Remote Sensing Data	Jouni	Pulliainen	Finnish Meteorological Institute
13:10	13:30	ESA DUE PERMAFROST: Circumpolar Remote Sensing Service for Permafrost: Evaluation and Application Case Studies	Heim	Birgit	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
13:30	14:30	Lunch
Snow, snow albedo and snow water equivalent I			Macelloni	Giovanni	Session Chair
Snow, snow albedo and snow water equivalent I			Pulliainen	Jouni	Session Chair
14:30	14:50	The new operational NASA AMSR-E SWE Algorithm	Tedesco	Marco	CUNY
14:50	15:10	CoReH2O, a Candidate Earth Explorer Mission for Snow and Ice Observations	Rott	Helmut	University of Innsbruck
15:10	15:30	High fidelity snow covered Area and dust/black carbon radiative Forcing in Snow from MODIS	Painter	Thomas	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15:30	15:50	Ku and X-band scatterometer Measurements and Retrievals of terrestrial Snow in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada	Kelly	Richard	University of Waterloo
15:50	16:10	Evolution of SWE in the seasonal Snowpack based on field Measurements in Hemavan compiled for ASAR Validation	Ingvander	Susanne	Stockholm University
16:10	16:30	Coffee Break
Snow, snow albedo and snow water equivalent II			Painter	Thomas	Session Chair
Snow, snow albedo and snow water equivalent II			Strozzi	Tazio	Session Chair
16:30	16:50	Trend of northern hemisphere seasonal snow Cover and Albedo for a Period of 30 Years based on ESA DUE GLOBSNOW	Pulliainen	Jouni	Finnish Meteorological Institute
16:50	17:10	Seasonal and inter-annual Evolution of snow grain Size in Antarctica and Consequences for the snow-albedo Feedback	Picard	Ghislain	UJF/CNRS - Laboratoire de Glaciologie
17:10	17:30	Assessment of Snow Accumulation on Northern Hemisphere Based on CMIP5 Simulations and Satellite-Based Data Records	Luojus	Kari	Finnish Meteorological Institute
17:30	17:50	Feasibility Study on Snow Property Extraction based on Differential SAR Interferometry	Leinss	Silvan	ETH Zürich
17:50	18:10	Retrieval of Subsurface snow grain Size, snow Temperature and Albedo from a Satellite	Kokhanovsky	Alexander	University of Bremen
18:10	18:30	Round Table Discussion: Cryosphere in the water cycle
18:30	19:30	Poster session and cocktail

Day 2 - 14.11.2012
Reducing uncertainties in mass balance estimates I			Joughin	Ian	Session Chair
Reducing uncertainties in mass balance estimates I			Scharma	Ernst	Session Chair
08:50	09:20	Wake up key note: A reconciled Estimate of ice sheet mass Balance	Shepherd	Andrew	University of Leeds
09:20	09:40	Mass loss of Greenland and Antarctica from GRACE and IceSat/CryoSat	Forsberg	Rene	Technical University of Denmark
09:40	10:00	Glacier response after Disintegration of Northern Larsen Ice Shelf observed by multisensor Satellite Data	Rott	Helmut	Univ. Innsbruck and ENVEO IT
10:00	10:20	A Synthesis of 9 Years of Envisat altimeter Results over the Antarctic ice Sheet	Remy	Frederique	CNRS
10:20	10:40	Status and Update on time-variable gravity Observations of ice sheet Mass balance with GRACE: Precision and Limitations.	Isabella	Velicogna	University of California Irvine
10:40	11:00	Ice Sheet Mass Balance: Determining Accumulation and Dynamic Driven Changes from Satellite-Altimeter Measurements	Zwally	H. Jay	NASA Goddard SFC
11:00	11:20	Coffee Break
Reducing uncertainties in mass balance estimates II			Payne	Antony	Session Chair
Reducing uncertainties in mass balance estimates II			Velicogna	Isabella	Session Chair
11:20	11:40	Combining GRACE and a regional climate Model for improved spatial resolution Mass Balance and use dynamic Estimates	Tedesco	Marco	CUNY
11:40	12:00	Global mass balances reconstructed from GRACE level 2 temporal gravity data.	Schrama	Ernst	TU Delft
12:00	12:20	Ice dynamics at Transantarctic Mountain glaciers analysed by a combination of satellite SAR and field data	Rack	Wolfgang	University of Canterbury
12:20	12:40	Combining satellite altimetry and gravimetry data to improve Antarctic mass balance and GIA estimates	Gunter	Brian	Delft University of Technology
12:40	13:00	Improved Determination of ice sheet Discharge from NASA IceBridge, Satellite Radar Interferometry Data and other Data.	Rignot	Eric	UC Irvine and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
13:00	14:30	Poster Lunch
Reducing uncertainties in mass balance estimates III			v. d. Broeke	Michiel	Session Chair
Reducing uncertainties in mass balance estimates III			Zwally	Jay	Session Chair
14:30	14:50	Snow Accumulation Over the Ice Sheets: How Reliable Is the Retrieval From Satellite Data?	Dierking	Wolfgang	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
14:50	15:10	Overview of ice2sea projections for the contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to sea level over the next century	Payne	Antony	University of Bristol
15:10	15:30	Improving volume Loss estimate of the Greenland Ice Sheet	Khan	Shfaqat Abbas	DTU Space, National Space Institute
15:30	15:50	Partitioning peripheral Glacier and ice sheet Mass Change in Antarctica	Colgan	William	CIRES, University of Colorado
15:50	16:10	Impact of firn Processes on Antarcic ice sheet elevation Changes	Ligtenberg	Stefan	University Utrecht
16:10	16:30	Coffee Break
Ice Sheet Dynamics			Rignot	Eric	Session Chair
Ice Sheet Dynamics			Shepherd	Andrew	Session Chair
16:30	16:50	Results from the Greenland Ice Mapping Project	Joughin	Ian	APL, University of Washington
16:50	17:10	Adaptive mesh modelling of the Amundsen sea sector glaciers	Cornford	Stephen	University of Bristol
17:10	17:30	Antarctic instability and possible associated contribution to sea-level rise	Ritz	Catherine	Université de Grenoble/CNRS
17:30	17:50	Ice_Sheets_CCI: Essential Climate Variables for the Greenland Ice Sheet	Forsberg	Rene	Technical University of Denmark
17:50	18:10	Surface elevation Change in the interior North Greenland, 2007-2012: annual Variation and Trends	Hvidberg	Christine	University of Copenhagen
18:10	18:30	Round Table Discussion: Mass Balance
18:30	19:30	Poster session and cocktail

Day 3 - 15.11.2012
Ice Shelves			Rott	Helmut	Session Chair
Ice Shelves			Scambos	Ted	Session Chair
08:50	09:20	Wake up key Note: Remote Sensing of Lake Ice: Progress and Prospects	Duguay	Claude	University of Waterloo
09:20	09:40	Basal melt Rates of Antarctic Ice Shelves estimated from Satellite Data	Moholdt	Geir	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
09:40	10:00	Interannual-to-decadal Variability of Antarctic ice shelf Elevations from multi-mission satellite Radar Altimetry	Paolo	Fernando	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10:00	10:20	Integrating Satellite, airborne, and in situ Observations to assess the Stability of the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica	McGrath	Daniel	University of Colorado
10:20	10:40	Melt extent, duration and ponding on ice shelves from Envisat ASAR	Luckman	Adrian	Swansea University
10:40	11:00	Ice-shelf Melt Rates in Antarctica	Rignot	Eric	UC Irvine and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11:00	11:20	Coffee Break
Ice-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions			Kern	Stefan	Session Chair
Ice-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions			Dierking	Wolfgang	Session Chair
11:20	11:40	Estimation of Arctic sea surface Currents from satellite ice drift Data	Girard-Ardhuin	Fanny	IFREMER
11:40	12:00	Arctic Sea Ice, Clouds and the Atmosphere Interactions from Satellite Observations	Liu	Yinghui	CIMSS, UW-Madison
12:00	12:20	Sea ice Modelling in a coupled global ocean-ice Model	Tang	Yongming	ECMWF
12:20	12:40	Towards Quantifying Recent Glacial Retreat around Greenland: Insights from a High Resolution Coupled Ocean-Sea Ice Model	Fenty	Ian	California Institute of Technology
12:40	13:00	Combining SAR Images with an iceberg drift Model for improving mass loss Estimations caused by Iceberg Calving	Wesche	Christine	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
13:00	14:30	Poster Lunch
Glaciers and Ice Caps I			Paul	Frank	Session Chair
Glaciers and Ice Caps I			Rack	Wolfgang	Session Chair
14:30	14:50	Early 21st century glacier mass Change in the Hindu Kush - Karakoram - Himalaya derived from ICESat	Kääb	Andreas	University of Oslo
14:50	15:10	Surface elevation Changes and Velocities on the Southern Patagonia Icefield derived from TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X Data	Floricioiu	Dana	German Aerospace Center (DLR)
15:10	15:30	Coherence and Feature Tracking Study (CaFTS)	Hogg	Anna	ESA and The University of Leeds
15:30	15:50	Emergence and submergence of glacier flow in major Greenland outlet glaciers	Gourmelen	Noel	Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg
15:50	16:10	Monitoring snow Layers of the Antarctic Ice-Cap using reflected Signals: GNSS and the Sun as Sources of Opportunity	Macelloni	Giovanni	IFAC - CNR
16:10	16:30	Coffee Break
Glaciers and Ice Caps II			Steffen	Konrad	Session Chair
Glaciers and Ice Caps II			Bamber	Jonathan	Session Chair
16:30	16:50	A globally complete Map of Glaciers and Icecaps derived from remote sensing Data	Paul	Frank	University of Zurich
16:50	17:10	Irreversible Mass Loss from Canadian Arctic Glaciers	Lenaerts	Jan	Utrectht University
17:10	17:30	Analysis of glacier mass Balance and Rheology of Kekesayi Glacier using Hexagon KH-9, ALOS-PRISM and SAR Data	Holzer	Nicolai	Institute for Cartography, Technische University Dresden
17:30	17:50	Modelling Polsar Scattering Signatures at long Wavelengths of glacier Ice Volumes	Parrella	Giuseppe	German Aerospace Center (DLR)
17:50	18:30	Round Table Discussion: Glaciers and Ice Caps
18:30	19:30	Poster session and cocktail

Day 4 - 16.11.2012
Sea Ice I			Howell	Stephen	Session Chair
Sea Ice I			Gerland	Sebastian	Session Chair
08:50	09:20	Wake up key note: Sea ice thickness and Ice Volume from CryoSat-2	Laxon	Seymour	University College London
09:20	09:40	Sea ice Concentration as an Essential Climate Variable	Pedersen	Leif Toudal	Danish Meteorological Institute
09:40	10:00	Gridding uncertainties in remote sensing of sea ice concentration : preliminary results from the ESA CCI Sea Ice project	Lavergne	Thomas	Meteorologisk Institutt
10:00	10:20	Distribution and character of multi-year/multi-decadal fast ice east of Mertz Glacier, East Antarctica	Young	Neal	AAD and ACE CRC
10:20	10:40	Development and Validation of the ERS and ENVISAT radar Altimeter based sea ice Thickness in the ESA Sea Ice CCI Project	Mäkynen	Marko	Finnish Meteorological Institute
10:40	11:00	The Potential of improving seasonal sea ice Forecasts using SMOS Data	Kaleschke	Lars	Institut für Meereskunde, KlimaCampus, University of Hamburg
11:00	11:20	Coffee Break
Sea Ice II			Giles	Katharine	Session Chair
Sea Ice II			Pedersen	Leif Toudal	Session Chair
11:20	11:40	Sea Ice Deformation in Satellite Remote Sensing Data and in a Coupled Ocean-Sea Ice Model: 1996-2008	Spreen	Gunnar	Norwegian Polar Institute
11:40	12:00	Sea ice area Flux between the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Arctic Ocean and Baffin Bay from RADARSAT: 1997-2011	Howell	Stephen	Environment Canada
12:00	12:20	Estimation of sea-ice Thickness in Ross and Weddell Seas from SSM/I brightness Temperatures	Aulicino	Giuseppe	Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope
12:20	12:40	In-situ Calibration and Validation of CryoSat-2 Observations over Arctic first Year sea ice on North Svalbard	Wang	Caixin	Norwegian Polar Institute
12:40	13:00	Stick your nose into the snow – Validation of satellite sea ice observations	Haas	Christian	York University
13:00	14:30	Poster Lunch
Sea Ice III			Kaleschke	Lars	Session Chair
Sea Ice III			Haas	Christian	Session Chair
14:30	14:50	The Arctic Ocean’s dynamic topography and sea ice thickness from the ERS-2 and Envisat radar altimetry missions	Giles	Katharine	University College London
14:50	15:10	Evolution of the surface Albedo of Arctic Sea Ice between 1982-2009	Riihelä	Aku	Finnish Meteorological Institute
15:10	15:30	Comparison of feature based Segmentation of SAR satellite sea ice Images with manually drawn Ice-Charts.	Moen	Mari-Ann	University of Tromsø
15:30	15:50	Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics for Global Climate Models: GlobICE Products and Results	Baker	Steve	University College London
15:50	16:10	Comparison of Sea Ice Freeboard Distributions from Aircraft Data and CryoSat-2	Ricker	Robert	Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
16:10	16:30	Round Table Discussion: Sea Ice
16:30	17:00	Final Summary, Discussion and Closure