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International Ice Charting Working Group

Sponsored by:U.S. National Ice Center

Office of Naval Research Europe

Icelandic Meteorological Office

Canadian Ice Service

IICWGInternational Ice Charting Working Group

IICWGInternational Ice Charting Working Group

WMO

• Sub-Group on Sea Ice

• formal international co-ordinating body between Met. Agencies

• international standards

• projects: e.g. Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank Project

• ad-hoc working group on operational issues

• areas of interest - common technology - data exchange - analyst training - operational data access - applied R + D

• complementary to WMO-SGSI

• activities: - liaison and coordination - collaborative R + D

• informal working group of Canadian ice specialists • to promote linkages:

1. gov’t - industry - university

2. multiple disciplines in ice: - remote sensing - climate science - operations - modelling - ice mechanics - offshore engineering

• actvities: - thematic workshops, every 18-24 months

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IICWG II IICWG II Goals and ObjectivesGoals and Objectives

• Extend model of operational cooperation and coordination of JIWG to other operational ice charting centers

• From IICWG-1 the following key areas were identified:

- common technology- data exchange

- analyst training - operational data access - coordinated R + D

- leverage funding/science opportunites through multi-agency participation

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IICWG II IICWG II Goals and ObjectivesGoals and Objectives

• Report on key action items from IICWG-I– Information and idea exchange on existing research and projects– Harmonize ice charting formats to enable the exchange of

operational ice products

– Attempt to influence data policies of flight agencies to better meet the requirements of the operational ice services

• Development of collaborative action plan for current issues

• Solidification of IICWG as effective, beneficial working group

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2000 Accomplishments2000 Accomplishments• Support for Danish cruise in Greenland Sea; QuikScat

validation

• IIP iceberg warnings now more reliably available to Europeans

• Healy cruise coordination

• ARKTOS collaboration

• Possible IMS toolkit development

• Information exchange via Website

• Letter to WMO/IHO - ice information in Electronic Navigation Charts

• Operational chart exchange between DMI/NIC

• Joint validation of EUMETSAT SAF products

IICWG- IIIICWG- II

October 5-7, 1999Danish Meteorological Institute

Copenhagen, DenmarkOctober 3-5, 2000

Icelandic Meteorological InstituteReykjavik

http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NOAA/IICWG/

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