NOAA General Arctic Report Card Workshop Plans Ahead

The Arctic Report Card gives a yearly summary of environmental conditions. At the first workshop to bring together contributors, editors, and NOAA@NSIDC collaborators, plans were made to widen the number of parameters covered—now they are mostly physical variables—and to strengthen the peer review process. The sea ice section of the Report Card makes use of the Sea Ice Index. Florence Fetterer attended as product lead and to promote the use of MASIE for tracking short term changes in sea ice.