“How to do produce ice edge information for METAEREA SafetyNET bulletins and possible steps to further promote the use of ice information in the context of the IMO polar code” Information on the 6th Sea Ice Analyst Workshop being organized by the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) and the JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice (ETSI).
We look forward to your participation and are striving to make it a unique, relevant and informative workshop that will directly influence all of our partners involved in the operational analysis and forecasting of sea ice and icebergs in Polar waters.
The workshop will be held just prior to the 18th Meeting of the International Ice Charting Working Group and in the same premises. The main focus of the workshop lies in the best practices to produce the sea ice edge (iceberg) delineation for a GMDSS SafetyNet bulletin, ways of representing in graphical form and ways to disseminate the information. We will also explore possibilities for more Polar code focused information.
The theoretic background information will be treated only to be bare minimum; the core of the workshop will be on practical usage.
The tentative agenda is roughly:
Friday morning: International standards and formats; sea ice information from different types of satellite sensors and where and how to get these data; introduction in the open source Ice GIS used for the exercises.
Friday afternoon: Exercise on how to interpret satellite data and extract a sea ice edge and then produce a bulletin.
Saturday morning: presentation of results of first exercise and discussion of problems encountered. Short presentation about polar code and ice information needed. Saturday afternoon: Exercise on how to interpret satellite data and extract a sea ice edge as well as possible “shipping capability edges” (which includes information of ice concentration and ice thickness as well as the ships ice class).
Sunday morning: presentation of results of second exercise and discussion of problems encountered and ways to go forward. The open source GIS used in the exercises (although participants can use also their own GIS system) will be made available at least two weeks prior to the workshop, as well as some satellite and weather information which can be used in the exercises (but the intention is also to use actual data).
Participants should bring their own computer. Workshop language will be English.
For information on venue, travel and tourist information please consult the IICWG Meeting invitation.
The main organizing Committee consists of Jürgen Holfort (German ice service); Keld Qvistgaard (Danish Meteorological Institute), Vasily Smolyanitsky Vasily Smolyanitsky (AARI) and Nick Hughes (Norwegian Ice Service).
Registration
There is no fee to attend the workshop but a registration is necessary.
Please register as soon as possible sending an e-mail to the IICWG secretariat at [email protected] or to any person of the organizing committee.
