The International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) was formed in October 1999 to promote cooperation between the world's ice centers on all matters concerning sea ice and icebergs.

Current Events

IICWG 12th Meeting: Post meeting report now available (posted 12/15/11)

IICWG-XII News Release (PDF 106 KB, posted 10/21/11)

Regional Contacts

Canada: David Jackson, Canadian Ice Service (Tel: +1 613-996-5088, David.Jackson@ec.gc.ca)

Denmark/Greenland: Keld Qvistgaard, Danish Meteorological Institute (Tel: +45 39 15 73 44, kqh@dmi.dk)

Germany: Jürgen Holfort, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (Tel: +49 (0) 381 4563-782, Juergen.Holfort@bsh.de)

Norway: Nick Hughes, Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Tel: +47 77 62 13 00, Nick.Hughes@met.no)

Russia: Vasily Smolyanitsky, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Tel: +7 812-337-3149, vms@aari.ru)

Sweden: Anette Jönsson, SMHI / Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Tel: +46 (0)11 495 8456, Anette.Jonsson@smhi.se)

United States: Pablo Clemente-Colón, U.S. National Ice Center (Tel: +1 301-817-3944, Pablo.Clemente-Colon@noaa.gov)

IICWG Secretariat: John.Falkingham@rogers.com

International Ice Patrol: Lisa Mack (Tel: +1 860-271-2635, Lisa.K.Mack@uscg.mil)

British Antarctic Survey - Andrew Fleming (Tel: +44 01223 221451, ahf@bas.ac.uk)

What's New

September 2011:
  Invitation to the International Workshop on Sea Ice Modelling and Data Assimilation (Ottawa, Canada, Dec. 12-14 2011) (PDF 81 KB)

August 2011:
   NASA's Reply to Letter Regarding Ku-Band Scatterometer Data (PDF 925 KB)
   Letter to NASA and NOAA Regarding Continued Access to Ku-Band Scatterometer Data for Ice Monitoring (PDF 81 KB)

Latest Ice Charts

For the latest ice charts, see the IPY Ice Portal.