Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Monitor what is vanishing

03 – 05 February 2020, Bern, Switzerland

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Final Workshop Programme

Day 1 – Presentations

• Welcome & Opening
• Cryosphere and Climate
• Snow Cover (Regional to global scale) I
• Poster Session I
• Albedo of the Cryosphere

Day 2 – Presentations

• New Technologies to Observe the Cryosphere
  • Alexander Raphael Groos, Thalia Bertschinger (University of Bern, Switzerland)
  • Michael Zemp (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
    
    
• Snow Cover (Regional to global scale) II
• Poster Session II
• ESA CCI+ Snow

Day 3 – Presentations

• Snow Hydrology

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Workshop Overview

The 9^th Workshop on Remote Sensing of Land Ice and Snow of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL) was held at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland, from 03 – 05 February 2020.

The cryosphere of the Earth is undergoing dramatic changes. Glaciers are retreating at accelerated rate and snow cover distribution and duration is changing with many significant side-effects (run-off, permafrost, albedo, etc.). Remote Sensing can provide the required data to study these changes of the cryosphere.

This workshop focused on the latest developments in remote sensing of land ice and snow. Presentations were held on all fields of research and applications with the focus on snow and ice as proxy for a changing cryosphere, methods for retrieving cryospheric parameters from various types of remote sensing data, theoretical basis of inversion methods and their application, state of the art of retrieval algorithms, data assimilation of remote sensing data and in situ observations in process models, and current and planned sensors for snow and ice. Half of a day was dedicated to the activities from ESA (CCI+) and EUMETSAT.

Session topics

• Glaciers and Ice Caps
• Snow cover (regional to global scale)
• Snow hydrology
• Snow on sea ice and glaciers
• Albedo of the cryosphere
• Cryosphere and climate
• Cryospheric modelling and data assimilation
• New technologies (sensors/methods)
• ESA CCI+ snow
• EUMETSAT operational services

Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Patricia de Rosnay (ECMWF, Reading)
  Impact Of Snow Cover Data Assimilation Over The Tibetan Plateau On Medium Range Numerical Weather Prediction
• Dr. Michael Zemp (World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zürich)
  Internationally coordinated glacier monitoring: from early warning systems towards memorials of the climate crisis
• Dr. Carolin Richter (WMO-GCOS, Genf)
  Needs and Opportunities for Observing the Cryosphere

Committees

Scientific Committee

Name	Affiliation
Dr. Yves Bühler	WSL-SLF, Switzerland
Dr. Chris Derksen	Env.Clim.Change, Canada
Dr. Marie Dumont	Météo-France, France
Prof. Dr. Richard Kelly	University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Kari Luojus	FMI, Finland
Dr. Sari Metsämäki	SYKE, Finland
Dr. Thomas Nagler	ENVEO, Austria
Dr. Kathrin Naegeli	University of Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Patricia de Rosnay	ECMWF, Int
Dr. Lothar Schueller	EUMETSAT, Int
Dr. Julienne Stroeve	University of Manitoba, Canada
Dr. Alexander Trishchenko	Natural Resources, Canada
Dr. Anna-Maria Trofaier	ESA, Int
Dr. Stefan Wunderle	University of Bern, Switzerland

Organisation Committee

Name	Affiliation
Dr. Stefan Wunderle	University of Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Kathrin Naegeli	University of Bern, Switzerland
Céline Portenier	University of Bern, Switzerland
Heide Bierbrauer	EARSeL secretary, Germany