Arctic ROOS Annual Meeting
03 – 04 November 2010

Day 1: 1300-1700, Day 2: 0900-1200

Hosted by
Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Powstancow Warszawy 55, 81-712 Sopot, Poland (Tel : +48-58-551-72-81).
Contact: Jan Piechura (e-mail: piechura@iopan.gda.pl)
http://www.iopan.gda.pl/

Draft agenda

1. Welcome by IOPAS
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Chair and Rapporteur of the meeting
4. Highlights of activities of the Secretariat in 20010 by  S. Sandven
5. Presentations by the members of main work in 2010 and further plans

 • Institute of Marine Research (IMR)
 • Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
 • University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (UCAM DAMTP)
 • Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)
 • University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (UB IUP)
 • Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
 • Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
 • Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS)
 • Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)
 • Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER)
 • Mercator Ocean
 • Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Russia (NIERSC)
 • Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no)
 • Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)
 • Geophysical Institute – University of Bergen
 • Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)

Members who have indicated that they cannot attend are expected to provide slides giving an overview of their activities

6. Participation in ESONET Arctic Demonstration Mission  (S. Sandven/H.Sagen)
7. Status of SIOS: Svalbard Integrated Observing System – Preparatory Phase project in FP7 for European research infrastructure in Svalbard (S. Sandven/P. M. Haugan)
8. Status of JERICO, a new EU-project for coordination of European observing systems (NIVA/ IMR)
9. The NORMAP project: Norwegian Satellite Earth Observation Database for Marine and Polar Research (NERSC/met.no/KSAT/CERSAT)
10. ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) sea proposal coordinated by met.no was not accepted. A new call is expected in 2011.

11. Update and populate the Arctic ROOS portal (http://arctic-roos.org). How can we provide more data and data products via this portal ?  Most of the partners have data that are accessible on web sites.  These should be linked to the Arctic ROOS portal so that it is easy for users to find data. The portal should provide different levels of information: high level synthesis, graphics and maps, data sets. The data includes

 • daily, weekly and monthly data
 • forecast
 • historical data, re-analysis and climate data
 • information on data policy and data management

Examples of web sites provided by the other ROOS’s can be reviewed under links of the EuroGOOS web site http://www.eurogoos.org

12. Strategy for Arctic ROOS. How to develop Arctic ROOS in the post-IPY era ? How can operational oceanography at high latitudes have more focus as provider of useful information for society ?  The interest and demand for information from Arctic regions has never been higher.   We have previously planned to do prepare:

(a) A short policy document for promotion

(b) A more detailed implementation plan describing the observing and modelling systems, aimed at members and scientists involved in technical development and implementation of the different components of Arctic ROOS. The outline of chapters for this document has been proposed:

(1) Revised objectives (what are the goals)
(2) Background and rationale (why do we need ROOS in Arctic and sub-Arctic seas)
(3) State-of-the-art and gaps in present systems (what do we have and what is lacking
(4) Planned development and implementation in the next 5 years
    (address in situ observing methods, satellite remote sensing and modelling)
(5) What activities are funded and what needs new funding ?
(6) Plans for new proposals for funding of selected activities (national and EU programmes)
(7) Coordination and integration of activities (strengthen complementarity and reduce overlap of activities)
(8) Infrastructure: what exist and what is under development
(9) Data management and dissemination systems
(10) User requirements, now and in comming years

(c) Prepare proposals to fund activities to build and operate operational oceanography systems

 
13. Action items and administrative issues
14. AOB