International Ice Charting Working Group Fourth Meeting (IICWG-IV)
First Announcement
7-11 April 2003
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)
St.Petersburg, Russian Federation
For more information on the IICWG-IV see:
http://www.aari.nw.ru/projects/iicwg_iv/main.html
General information on the International Ice Charting Working Group is
available at:
http://nsidc.org/noaa/iicwg
The International Ice Charting Working Group Fourth Meeting will be
hosted by and convened at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
(AARI) and sponsored by the U.S. National Ice Center, Canadian Ice
Service, the U.S. Office of Naval Research Polar Programs and the Arctic
and Antarctic Research Institute.
Meeting will be preceded by a Science Workshop (7 April 03) dedicated to
Sea Ice Modeling and Data Assimilation. Agenda of the IICWG-IV Meeting
will include reports from the IICWG Chairs, IICWG Standing Committees -
on Data, Information and Customer Support and on Applied Science and
Research, other international sea ice working groups, including WMO/IOC
JCOMM, BSIM, U.S/Canada Joint Ice Working Group, International Ice
Patrol and various technical sessions. Thematic sessions during the
Meeting will be dedicated to Sea Ice Modeling and Data Assimilation, Ice
Center Relationships including GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment
and Security), ECDIS, Satellite Data Access, and Development of Sea Ice
Mapping Systems. Tentatively planned is a session devoted to
presentations by Russian icebreaker captains discussing their Arctic ice
navigation experiences. Further agenda details will be forthcoming and
published at IICWG-IV website. Following technical tours are also
planned: to the Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic and to
historical icebreaker "Krasin" (non-operative).
All suggested modifications and additions to the agenda, and suggested
presentations in the thematic sessions should be submitted to the
organizing committee by 15 January.
For more information on IICWG-IV visit the following websites:
IICWG-IV Website
http://www.aari.nw.ru/projects/iicwg_iv/main.html
IICWG Website
http://nsidc.org/noaa/iicwg
IICWG - IV Organizing Committee:
Cheryl Bertoia, U.S. National Ice Center, bertoiac [at] natice.noaa.gov
John Falkingham, Canadian Ice Service, John.Falkingham [at] ec.gc.ca
Ivan Frolov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, frolov [at] aari.nw.ru
Keld Q. Hansen, Danish Meteorological Institute, kqh [at] dmi.dk
Mikhail Krasnoperov, World Meteorological Organization, krasnop [at] www.wmo.ch
Michael Manore, Canadian Ice Service, mike.manore [at] ec.gc.ca
Vasily Smolyanitsky, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, vms [at] aari.nw.ru