The first ICE cruise from Rijpfjorden, Svalbard to the edge of the Arctic Basin.Photo: ©Tor Ivan Karlsen, Norwegian Polar Institute, 2010The CliC Arctic Sea Ice Working Group (CASIWG) concentrates on improving the coordination between the sea-ice observation and modelling communities to establish protocols for standardizing and archiving data across the different national and international activities.
The establishment of a CliC Arctic Sea-Ice Working Group complements ASPeCt in arctic regions. This working group is initially focused on improving the coordination of surface-based sea-ice and snow observations, establishing protocols for standardizing and archiving data across the different national and international activities, and linking partners to ensure that functional, sustained observing networks are established for long-term observation and monitoring of these regions.
Progress in observations should be continued in the area of assimilation of the variety of sea-ice observations into coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models. This will contribute to create a basis for global ocean and climate system re-analysis.
The goals of the Climate and Cryosphere Arctic Sea Ice Working Group (ASIWG) are:
CASIWG organized several workshops, a major part of their activities, which have fostered the needed international collaboration in achieving our goals. Results from these workshops have been disseminated through journal articles and reports, and have been published on the web. These workshops include:
ASSIST, the sea ice observation software, continues to be used on both research and tourist cruises. ASIWG members have continued to contribute to the Sea Ice Section of the NOAA Arctic Report Card and to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society State of the Climate issue. ASIWG members have participated in the planning of MOSAiC – Multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate. ASIWG members participated in 2017 Sea Ice Prediction Network and in a joint modeling/observing workshop examining sea ice thickness.
2017 Publications
Richter‐Menge and others. The Arctic (in "State of the Climate in 2016"). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 98, 2017.
Chair & Contact person Melinda Webster (past chair Don Perovich)
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Main fields |
Melinda Webster (Chair) |
University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA |
Arctic snow and sea ice |
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Hajo Eicken (Steering comittee)
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International Arctic Research Center (IARC), University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA |
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Sebastian Gerland (Steering comittee) |
Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway |
Sea ice thickness and optics, Svalbard, Greeland and Barents Seas |
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Jennifer Hutchings (Steering Comittee) |
Oregon State University, USA |
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Walt Meier (Steering comitee) |
National Snow and Ice Data Center, USA |
Remote sensing |