International Ice Charting Working Group IICWGV Applied Science

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International Ice Charting Working
GroupIICWG-VApplied Science
ResearchStanding Committee Report

• Co-Chairs
• Dean Flett Lars-Anders Breivik

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.1
• Distribute information on the NASA Data
  Assimilation Workshop for sea ice at Woods Hole
  Oceanographic Institution to other members of
  science committee.
• Responsible
• M. Van Woert. 
• Status
• CLOSED
• Short Course on Data Assimilation for Sea-Ice
  Modelers took place May 10-11, 2003 at Woods Hole
  Oceanographic Institute.

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.2
• Report to ASRC and IICWG-V on NASA Data
  Assimilation Workshop.
• Responsible
• M. Van Woert.
• Status
• CLOSED
• The lecture material is available at
  http//ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/sea_ice.
• Reference text is The Ocean Circulation Inverse
  Problem by Carl Wunsch.

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.3
• IICWG recommends converting sea ice model output
  in a common data format, netCDF, in order to
  better share/exchange data.
• Responsible
• Members of Science Committee.
• Status
• OPEN
• met.no/DMI The OSI SAF sea ice products will be
  available in netCDF. This is a part of the EU
  FP-6 project MERSEA. In MERSEA it will be
  organized as a common met-ocean data distribution
  server for exchange of data. This will also
  include sea ice model output from met.no/MERSEA
  site.
• CIS CIS Modeling Lab has the capability to
  generate netCDF format output. Transition to this
  as standard format will occur over the next year
  as coordination is required to integrate and be
  compatible with the Canadian Meteorological
  Centre

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.4
• Investigate the possibility of direct
  assimilation of passive microwave radiance,
  scatterometer backscatter, infrared radiances,
  and visible reflectance.
• Responsible
• Members of Science Committee.
• Status
• OPEN ONGOING
• To be discussed at IICWG-5 Science Workshop.
• To be addressed as part of DA activities.

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.5
• Identify national science leads at each ice
  center in order to develop a structure for
  collaboration.
• Responsible
• IICWG National representatives.
• Status
• OPEN - ONGOING
• U.S. Mike Van Woert
• Norway Lars-Anders Breivik
• Canada Tom Carrieres
• Denmark Rashpal Gill
• Russia Sergey Klyachkin
• Other national leads TBD.

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.6
• Focus of next science workshop will continue to
  emphasize modelling DA, advanced tutorials on
  model, satellite algorithms, and data
  assimilation. Model performance info
  incorporating guidance from CJRS paper.
• Responsible
• Science Committee Co-Chairs.
• Status
• CLOSED
• IICWG-5 Science Workshop agenda addressed most
  of these items.
• Further discussion and action to be undertaken
  during IICWG-5 committee sessions.

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.7
• Recommend that national model leads attend next
  workshop and present latest results.
• Responsible
• IICWG members. 
• Status
• CLOSED
• Canada, US, and Norway leads presented.
• New presentations from centres and institutes in
  Germany, Norway, and UK.

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.8
• Finalize and publish the "White Paper on Data
  Assimilation," under an official publication.
• Responsible
• T. Carrieres, L-A. Breivik.
• Status
• OPEN
• Appropriate target publication and/or agency has
  not been identified. Input still required (see
  SC4.9) and paper requires further work.
• To be addressed during IICWG-5 committee
  sessions.

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Applied Science and Research IICWG IV Action Items

• SC4.9
• Provide national input data, model and data
  assimilation inventory, national input to
  modeling system requirements and further comments
  to ASRC and JCOMM ETSI chair by June 30, 2003.
• Responsible
• IICWG members and specific information from
  Baltic Sea Ice Services WG.
• Status
• OPEN
• Incomplete. To be addressed during IICWG-5
  committee sessions.