The Workshop goals

The International Ice Charting Working Group and S4D (SEARCH for DAMOCLES) are pleased to announce a joint 2008 workshop on Assimilation of data into models of the Arctic.

The workshop takes place at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen on October 15-17, 2008.

The goal of the workshop is to exchange ideas and experience between the operational modeling community associated with the International Ice Charting Working Group and the scientific modeling communities associated with SEARCH and DAMOCLES and other scientific projects/organizations.

The workshop themes are

Data for assimilation into models (availability and requirements)
Model developments and improvements
Data assimilation (methods and results)