Agenda

 

Time      Title   Authors
DAY 1        
9:00   Welcome and logistics, Goals, Introduction   Leif Toudal Pedersen,  Lars-Anders Breivik, Tom  Carrieres, Frank Kauker
9:30   Validation of a regional coupled ocean/sea ice model in Nares Strait   Till Rasmussen
10:00   Development of operational coupled sea ice and ocean model at DMI   Stiig Wilkenskjeld
10:15   Canceled    
10:45   Break    
11:15   Parameter sensitivity to assimilation of different data in a sea-ice model using the Ensemble Kalman Filter   Christof Koenig Beatty
11:45    Assimilation of  sea ice observations in a coupled ocean sea ice state estimate of the Labrador Sea using the adjoint method   Ian Fenty
12:15   Lunch    
13:30    Discussion: Is there an optimal ice model for all purposes or classes of models that are more appropriate to ice services or climate modeling. How close are we to having a linearized version of a coupled ice-ocean model?   Moderator: Tom Carrieres
14:30   Assimilation of observed and unobserved ocean and sea ice   Lars Axell
15:00   Break    
15:30   Variational assimilation of hydrographic and ice concentration observations into a coupled ocean sea ice model of the Arctic   Thomas Kaminski
15:45   Quantitative Network Design   Thomas Kaminski
16:00   Adjoint analysis of the summer 2007 low in Arctic sea-ice area   Frank Kauker
16:30   Discussion:  Strengths and weaknesses of DA techniques and how each can benefit from the other.   Moderator: Mark Buehner
19:30   Workshop Dinner at the Copenhagen Planetarium    
DAY 2        
9:00   An overview of some Environment Canada sea ice data assimilation projects   Tom Carrieres
9:30   Sea ice thickness categories and their error covariances for assimilation with a three-dimensional variational data assimilation system   Alain Caya
10:00   Towards the use of high-resolution remote sensing data in a three-dimensional variational analysis system: A collaboration with OSI-SAF   Mark Buehner
10:30   Break    
11:00   Assessment of the ECCO2 regional optimized solution in the Arctic   An T. Nguyen
11:30   Discussion: Background error estimation, use of observations, etc. What are main      sources of sea-ice background error (i.e. 12-24h forecasts):atmospheric forcing error? ocean forcing error? sciences of ice model? uncertain parameters (drag coeff., yield curve)? What fraction of the error can be explained by: ice displacement errors? melt/growth errors?   Moderator: Lars-Anders Breivik
12:30   Lunch    
13:30   The joint NSIDC and EUMETSAT sea ice re-analysis   Rasmus Tonboe
14:00   The DAMOCLES project and beyond - recent advances in oceanographic observations in arctic regions and the legacy of IPY oceanography   Jean Claude Gascard
14:30   Measurements of Arctic sea ice thickness with upward-looking sonars in 2004 and 2007   Joao Rodrigues
15:00   Break    
15:30   OSI SAF SEA Ice products and their use in ocean-ice-model data assimilation   Lars-Anders Breivik
16:00   The met.no ice chart archive   Nick Hughes
16:30   Discussion: can models and data assimilations systems improve the utility of observations and re-analyses   Moderator: Leif Toudal Pedersen
DAY 3        
9:00   Arctic Wide Ice Motion Estimation from Operational Satellite Imagery: improving the time span and accuracy of low resolution products   Thomas Lavergne
9:30   High resolution Arctic Sea Ice drift   Leif Toudal Pedersen
10:00   Satellite remote sensing of Arctic surface parameters at University of Bremen   Christian Melsheimer
10:30   Break    
11:00   Discussion: Intro by Thomas Lavergne - Satellite derived ice drift is NOT velocity. Operational sources of sea ice drift and thickness, error estimation and representativeness   Moderator: Thomas Lavergne
12:00   Planning: collaboration, future meetings, etc.    
12:30   Lunch, meeting end    
13:30   IICWG IPY Project coordination