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Regional Greenland Accumulation Variability From Operation Icebridge Airborne Accumulation Radar, Gabriel Lewis, Erich Osterberg, Robert Hawley, Brian Whitmore, Hans Peter Marshall, Jason Box
Regional Greenland Accumulation Variability From Operation Icebridge Airborne Accumulation Radar, Gabriel Lewis, Erich Osterberg, Robert Hawley, Brian Whitmore, Hans Peter Marshall, Jason Box
CGISS Publications and Presentations
The mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) in a warming climate is of critical interest to scientists and the general public in the context of future sea-level rise. An improved understanding of temporal and spatial variability of snow accumulation will reduce uncertainties in GrIS mass balance models and improve projections of Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise, currently estimated at 0.089 ± 0.03 m by 2100. Here we analyze 25 NASA Operation IceBridge accumulation radar flights totaling > 17 700 km from 2013 to 2014 to determine snow accumulation in the GrIS dry snow and percolation zones over the past …
Probabilistic Inversion With Graph Cuts: Application To The Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site, Guillaume Pirot, Niklas Linde, Grégoire Mariethoz, John H. Bradford
Probabilistic Inversion With Graph Cuts: Application To The Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site, Guillaume Pirot, Niklas Linde, Grégoire Mariethoz, John H. Bradford
CGISS Publications and Presentations
Inversion methods that build on multiple-point statistics tools offer the possibility to obtain model realizations that are not only in agreement with field data, but also with conceptual geological models that are represented by training images. A recent inversion approach based on patch-based geostatistical resimulation using graph cuts outperforms state-of-the-art multiple-point statistics methods when applied to synthetic inversion examples featuring continuous and discontinuous property fields. Applications of multiple-point statistics tools to field data are challenging due to inevitable discrepancies between actual subsurface structure and the assumptions made in deriving the training image. We introduce several amendments to the original graph …
Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis Of The Snake River Plain: Phase 2, Lee M. Liberty
Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis Of The Snake River Plain: Phase 2, Lee M. Liberty
CGISS Publications and Presentations
Play Fairway Analysis (PFA) is a methodology adapted from the petroleum industry that integrates data at the regional or basin scale to define favorable plays for exploration in a systematic fashion. Phase 2 of our Play Fairway Analysis of the Western Snake River Plain (WSRP) province in southern Idaho had three primary goals: first, to fill data gaps in critical areas in order to better define potential prospects, second, to integrate these data into new thermal and structural models, and finally, to infer the location of potential resources and drilling targets that could be validated during Phase 3. Prospects in …