BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGES
Arctic ROOS foundation meeting in Luleå, Sweden, 18 – 19 December 2007
The foundation meeting for Arctic ROOS was held at Brändö Konferens och Fritidsby in Luleå, Sweden 18-19 December, hosted jointly by SMHI and EuroGOOS.
The foundation meeting for Arctic ROOS was held at Brändö Konferens och Fritidsby in Luleå, Sweden 18-19 December, hosted jointly by SMHI and EuroGOOS.
Participants in the foundation meeting (from left): Jan Piechura, Stein Sandven, Mary Altalo, Ari Seina, Leonid Bobylev, Dominique Durand, Sian Petersson, Amund Lindberg, Eberhard Fahrbach, Helge Tangen, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Jan Stel and Hans Dahlin.
Presentations of ongoing and planned Arctic ROOS activities were given by the members and can be downloaded: AWI-presentation, DMI-presentation, FIMR-presentation, IOPAS-presentation, met.no-presentation, NERSC-presentation, NIERSC-presentation, NIVA-presentation, SMHI-presentation, Univ. Bremen-presentation, and the formal establishment of Arctic ROOS was presented by Hans Dahlin from EuroGOOS
Arctic GOOS represented at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø
Arctic GOOS represented at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø
Outcome of the Arctic GOOS planning meeting 12 - 13 September 2006
Hosted jointly by Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and EuroGOOS Secretariat
Venue: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center,
Thormøhlensgate 47, N-5006 Bergen, Norway
12 - 13 Sept. 2006
Objective of the meeting
The objective of the meeting was to plan the next steps in organizing and developing operational oceanography services for the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. This is a follow-up of the planning document ("The Arctic Ocean and the Need for an Arctic GOOS") published by EuroGOOS in 2005. At present there are several ongoing projects and services in operational oceanography in the Arctic and during IPY there will be increased data collection and modelling efforts that can be used as building blocks for Arctic GOOS. The outcome of the meeting was to identify the next steps to develop an Arctic GOOS Alliance based on the initiatives taken by EuroGOOS and the good support from IOC, IGOOS, and Non-European countries as USA and Canada.
Summary presentation of the ArcticGOOS can be downloaded here
The individual presentations can be downloaded from the following agenga, click on title/name.
12 September 1300 – ca. 1700
- Welcome (S. Sandven, NERSC)
- Organisational aspects and formal coupling to GOOS (H. Dahlin, EuroGOOS)
- Main
components of monitoring and forecasting in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions
(15 minute presentations):
- In situ observing systems, examples from DAMOCLES IP (by E. Fahrbach)
- Modelling and forecasting: examples from MERSEA IP (by P. Bahurel)
- Satellite data delivery portals (S. Sandven)
- Arctic monitoring and forecasting within GMES (J. A. Johannessen)
- The PolarView GMES project (H. Tangen)
- Russian monitoring and forecasting (S. Pryamikov/V. Smirnov)
- Role of WCRP, CliC and IGOS Theme on Cryosphere (V. Ryabinin, WMO)
- Sentinel-1 Mission Concept: Malcolm Davidson (ESA)
- Sea Ice Remote Concentration charts from AMSR-E 89 GHz data (G. Heygster, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen)
- Brief presentations of other Arctic activities and plans that can
contribute to an Arctic GOOS Alliance (5 – 10 minute presentations)
- Finnish Institute of Marine Research: T. Stipa/A. Seina
- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute: L. Axell
- Insitute of Marine Research: H. Loeng & E. Svendsen
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute: Ø. Sætra
- Danish Meteorological Institute: E. Buch
- Scottish Association for Marine Sciences: N. Hughes
- Institute of Oceanology, Poland: J. Piechura
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA): D. Durand
- Storm Weather Centre: S. Haugland/G. Hauge
- TOPAZ forecasting system: L.Bertino/K.A. Lisæter
- MERCATOR OCEAN: P. Bahurel
Historical Documents
- The Arctic Ocean and the need for an Arctic GOOS (EuroGOOS publication No. 22, 2005)
- ATT introduction
- IOC-WMO-UNEP-ICSU Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) (GOOS report No. 151, 2006)
- IOC Thirty-ninth Session of the Executive Council (2006)
- The integrated Arctic Ocean Observing System (iAOOS): an AOSB-CliC Observing Plan for the International Polar Year (AOSB-CliC plan for iAOOS version 4)
- TOWARD AN INTEGRATED ARCTIC OBSERVING NETWORK (2006)