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| Tuesday, October 3 | ||
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| 0830 | Welcoming Remarks |
Magnus Jonsson Director, Icelandic Meteorological Office |
| 0845 | Address |
Kristjan Kristjansson Head of Science Division National Research Council of Iceland |
| 0855 | Introductions and Logistics |
Thor Jakobsson Sea Ice Unit, IMO |
| 0900 |
Opening Remarks Co-Chairs: (David Grimes, Director-General; Services, Clients and Partners Directorate; Meteorological Service of Canada; Environment Canada; Trausti Jonsson, Head, Department of Research and Processing, IMO; Zdenka Willis, Director, U.S. National Ice Center) |
Co-Chairs |
| Introduction of Participants | All | |
| Adoption of Agenda | Co-chairs | |
| 0920 | IICWG-II Goals and Objectives Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Cheryl Bertoia Thor Jakobsson (Organizing Committee) |
| 0930 | Reports from other Ice Working Groups (10 min. each) | |
| WMO SubGroup on Sea Ice and Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank | Mikhail Krasnoperov (WMO) | |
| Baltic Sea Ice Working Group |
Klaus Struebing (Chair, BSIWG) |
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| U.S./Canada Joint Ice Working Group Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
John Falkingham (CIS) | |
| 1000 | Coffee Break | |
| 1030 | Report on Action Items from IICWG-I | |
| Chair, Standing Committee on Data, Information and Customer Support Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Bob Desh (IIP) | |
| Co-Chairs, Standing Committee on Applied Science and Research Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Dean Flett (CIS) / Rashpal Gill (DMI) | |
| 1130 | Ice Center Reports: Issues and Concerns to be addressed by the IICWG, areas for possible cooperation (15 minutes each) | |
| Iceland | Thor Jakobsson (IMO) | |
| United States | ||
| National Ice Center Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Zdenka Willis (NIC) | |
| International Ice Patrol | Bob Desh (IIP) | |
| Canada Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Wayne Lumsden (CIS) | |
| 1230 | LUNCH: Walk to the North Pole, Haraldur Orn Olafsson | |
| 1400 | Finland | Hannu Grônvall (FIMR) |
| Greenland/Denmark Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Henrik Steen Andersen (DMI) | |
| Norway | Frode Dinessen (DNMI) | |
| Germany | Klaus Struebing (BSH) | |
| Russia Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Yuri Shcherbakov (AARI) | |
| Argentina | Beatrize Lorenzo | |
| 1530 | Coffee Break | |
| 1600 | Presentation of conference honorary guest, Pall Bergthorsson, sea ice and climate scientist and scholar, former Director of IMO | Thor Jakobsson |
| 1620 | Impacts of Sea Ice in Iceland A.D. 1850-2000 | Ingibjorg Jonsdottir |
| 1640 | Exploring Polynya Dynamics with a High-resolution Sea Ice Model | Halldor Bjornsson |
| 1700 | Reception hosted by the Icelandic Department of Environment | |
| Wednesday, October 4 | ||
| 0830 | Discussion Session: Future Sensors: Data Acquisition, Sharing and Costing Models Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Andersen / Manore / Stryker |
| * RADARSAT-2 Update Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Mike Manore | |
| * Envisat Data and Pricing | Simon Chesworth | |
| * NPOESS Mission | Timothy Stryker | |
| * IICWG Survey Results Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Henrik Andersen | |
| 0930 | Advances in SIGRID-based Formats Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Fetterer / Anderson |
| * Evolution of ice semantics on the basis of SIGRID | ||
| * Definition of spatial component in raster and/or vector form, choice of projections and accuracy | ||
| * Choice of WMO/freeware and commercial formats in relay of ice products to end-user | ||
| 1030 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100 | Discussion Session: Sea Ice Natural Variability and Potential Changes in the Arctic Ice Regime | Brigham / Falkingham |
| * The Link to the Operational Comunity: Practical Implications of Changing Ice Cover Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
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| 1230 | LUNCH | |
| 1330 | Technical Tours: visits to the Marine Science Institute and the Icelandic Coast Guard | |
| 1830 | Conference dinner in historical Videyjarstofa (hosted by IMO and ONREUR, Office of Naval Research, Europe) | |
| Thursday, October 5 | ||
| 0830 | Discussion Session: Ice Analyst Training and Tutorial Development Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Facilitated by Flett / Bertoia / Andersen |
| * Development of a Computer-based training (CBT) Tool: "Ice Tutor" | Dean Flett | |
| * Ice Analyst / Forecaster Training at NIC and Future Module Development of "Ice Tutor" Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Eric Miller | |
| * Ice Analysis and Interpretation Training: Present and Future Plans at DMI Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Keld Hansen | |
| 0930 | Discussion Session: Research and Development Collaborative Activities | Facilitated by Gill / Jonsdottir |
| * The CEOS Disaster / Hazards initiative Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Wood / Willis | |
| * A Frazil / Pancake Sea Ice Model | Coon / Toudal | |
| * EUMETSAT SAF Ocean and Sea Ice | Breivik | |
| * Sea ice detection in RADARSAT imagery using statistical distribution Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Gill | |
| 1030 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100 | Standing Committees Meetings | |
| Assignment of action items and preliminary report preparation | ||
| 1230 | LUNCH (hosted by the National Research Council of Iceland): President of Iceland, Dr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson: Future of the North, Icelandic and International Perspectives |
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| 1400 | Discussion Session: Ice in ECDIS Download Presentation (PowerPoint® required to open) |
Facilitated by Falkingham / Struebing |
| * Summary and Action Items from the June 2000 ECDIS Workshop in St. Johns: A Pilot Project | Falkingham | |
| 1430 | Coffee Break | |
| 1500 | Discussion Session: IICWG - Global or Northern Hemisphere? | Facilitated by Bertoia / Ramsay / Jakobsson |
| 1530 | Standing Committee Reports Download Presentation: Ice Ablation (PowerPoint® required to open) Download Presentation: Ice Chart Color Codes (PowerPoint® required to open) |
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| 1600 | Review of Action Items | Tim Stryker |
| 1630 | Closing Remarks | Grimes / Jonsson / Willis |
| 1700 | Meeting Adjourns | |
| Friday, October 6 | ||
| 0800 | Post-conference tour in the South Iceland countryside on a bus from GJ Travel Agency, returning to Reykjavik appr. at 1700 (optional) | |