[IGSMAIL-5808]: AGU session on Recent Advances in Observation and Modelling of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA)

[Matt King]

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IGS Electronic Mail      07 Aug 01:39:42 PDT 2008      Message Number 5808
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Author: Matt King, Erik Ivins and Bert Vermeersen

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2008 Fall AGU Session Call for Papers:
"G08:	Recent Advances in Observation and Modelling of Glacial
Isostatic Adjustment (GIA)"
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We encourage geodesy colleagues working on observation of glacial
isostatic adjustment to consider submitting an abstract to Session G08
at the Fall AGU in San Francisco, 15-19 December, 2008.

Session Description: Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) has recently
received renewed attention since associated mass transportation is seen
as a contaminating signal in Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
(GRACE) estimates of ice sheet mass balance. This session welcomes
reports on advances in both the modelling of GIA, including earth and
ice sheet models, and its measurement using geodetic and other
techniques, including GRACE, GPS, DORIS, absolute gravity, sea-level
indicators and geologic and geomorphologic approaches. A particular
focus is on GIA processes under the major present-day ice sheets.
Therefore, studies that explore present-day
errors/uncertainties/deficiencies in GIA models in Antarctica and
Greenland, as relevant to GRACE-based ice mass balance studies, will be
of wide interest. Large-scale comparisons of the effects of GIA on
satellite altimetry, GPS and GRACE data are particularly welcome.
Applications of new GIA models - especially those that can deal with
more realistic (full 3-D) earth structures and rheologies - to estimates
of ice sheet mass balance are further encouraged.

Further details may be found at
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=282

Matt King
Reader in Polar Geodesy & NERC Fellow
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