Danish Meteorological Institutes Center for Ocean and Ice Arctic Activities Erik Buch Head of Centre

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Danish Meteorological Institutes Center for
Ocean and IceArctic ActivitiesErik BuchHead
of Centre
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Greenland Iceservice
Satellite based Ice charting
Iscentralen in Narsarsuaq Helicopter ice
observations And piloting
DMI Copenhagen
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Radarsat and Envisat Satellites
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Greenland Iceservice products
Ugekort
Kort 2
Kort 2
Udarbejdes efter besejling og årstid
Kort 1
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Users
Passager ships
Tourits cruisers
Cargo ships
Trawlers
NAVY
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Surface temperatures
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Oceanographic observations off Greenland
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Forecasts for the North Atlantic

• Temperature
• salinity
• current
• sea ice
• water level
• drift
• sea ice, oil, objects

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Wave forecasts
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Climate research
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Research, development and international
cooperation

• Projekts
• Vestnordisk Oceanklima
• MOEN
• Damocles
• Greenice
• IOMASA
• OSISAF
• POLARVIEW
• Greenland Climate
• GMES
• MERSEA Strand 1
• MERSEA IP

• Subjects
• Climate variability and changes in the North
  Atlantic
• Effects on Greenlandic, Faeroese and Danish
  waters
• Optimisation of observation networks
• Model improvements
• Data assimilation
• Dynamical boundary conditions
• Re-analysis
• Remote Sensing
• International integration
• Global system
• Regional systems
• Sustainable systems

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