Summary of the Arctic GOOS planning meeting

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Summary of the Arctic GOOS planning
meeting Hosted jointly by Nansen Environmental
and Remote Sensing Center and EuroGOOS 12 - 13
September 2006 Venue Thormøhlensgate 47, 5006
Bergen, Norway Presentations and documents from
the meeting are available at http//www.nersc.no/A
TT/
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Objectives of the meeting

• Discuss the development of operational
  oceanography services for the Arctic and
  sub-Arctic regions.
• Present brief state-of-the art of Arctic
  monitoring activities and plans by the EuroGOOS
  Arctic Task Team and other interested
  participants
• Review the formal procedure to establish Arctic
  GOOS Regional Alliance and discussion of the MoU
  for this alliance

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The Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic Seas

• Bathymetry of the Arctic Ocean
• and surrounding seas.
• 1 Nordic Seas,
• 2 Barents Sea,
• 3 Fram Strait,
• 4 Eurasian Basin,
• 5 Canadian Basin,
• 6 Bering Strait.

(IBCAO, http//www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/ar
ctic/arctic.html)
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Main components of Arctic GOOS

• In situ observation systems ship-borne systems,
  moorings, ice buoys, floats and drifters
• Satellite remote sensing polar orbiting
  satellites using active and passive microwave,
  optical and infrared instruments
• Modelling data assimilation, nowcasting, short
  term forecasting, seasonal forecasting, climate
  modelling, model comparison and validation

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Schematic of observation system
Schematic of the vertical stack of observations
from satellites to seabed that would be necessary
to inform an iAOOS study focused on the present
state and future fate of the Arctic perennial
sea-ice.
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Satellite observations of sea ice

• Well-established for large-scale monitoring of
  ice area and extent
• Development towards higher resolution products
  using SAR
• Ongoing development to retrieve ice thickness
  from altimetry

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Modelling and forecasting

• MERESA Integrated Project
• Global ocean modelling and
• observing system
• Area I Global Ocean
• Area II North East Atlantic
• Area III Arctic
• Area IV Baltic Sea
• Area V Mediterranean Sea

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Next steps

• US are informed and waiting
• Sign an MoU, first draft distributed at meeting
• Establish basic organisational structure
• Update plans (use EuroGOOS publication 22)
• Start to work
• Present plans at 3rd GOOS Regional Forum
• Propose a recommendation from I-GOOS VIII,
  spring 07.
• Propose adoption at IOC Assembly 24, June 07

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Role of EuroGOOS

• One of the first GRAs
• Instrumental in the creation of Black Sea GOOS
  and Mediterranean GOOS
• Established early an Arctic Task Team in parallel
  with other regional task teams
• Hosted the first GOOS Regional Forum
• Has promoted an Arctic GOOS Alliance for a few
  years
• Published 2005 The Arctic Ocean and the need
  for an Arctic GOOS
• Established 2005 a EuroGOOS Secretariat for
  Arctic GOOS in Bergen, NERSC

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Potential Arctic GOOS partners from Europe

• 25 participants from 17 institutions/organisations
  participated in the meeting and expressed
  interest to be partners in Arctic GOOS
• Countries represented included Russia, Finland,
  Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, UK, Poland and
  France
• Organisations EuroGOOS and WMO/WCRP

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Meeting participants

• Hans Dahlin, EuroGOOS
• Vladimir Smirnov, AARI, Russia
• Lena Shalina, NIERSC, Russia
• Ari Seina, FIMR, Finland
• Tapani Stipa, FIMR/FMI, Finland
• Lars Axell, SMHI, Sweden
• Erik Buch, DMI, Denmark
• Eberhard Fahrbach, AWI, Germany
• Pierre Bahurel, MERCATOR, France
• Nick Hughes, SAMS, UK
• Jan Piechura, IOPAS, Poland
• Helge Tangen, met.no, Norway
• Øyvind Sætra, met.no, Norway
• Vladimir Ryabinin, WMO/WCRP

• Harald Loeng, IMR, Norway
• Einar Svendsen, IMR, Norway
• Peter M. Haugan, GI-UoB, Norway
• Svenn O. Haugland, Storm Weather Center, Norway
• Gard Hauge, Storm Weather Center, Norway
• Dominique Durand, NIVA, Norway
• Henning Wehde, NIVA, Norway
• Laurent Bertino, NERSC/MSC
• Knut Arild Liseter, NERSC/MSC
• Johnny A. Johannessen, NERSC
• Lasse H. Pettersson, NERSC
• Stein Sandven, NERSC