Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System Arctic ROOS Report from 2012 By Stein Sandven Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (www.arctic-roos.org)
Focus in 2012 1. Arctic Marine Forecasting Center 2. Sea ice monitoring: Arctic ROOS website 3. In situ data: In Situ TAC + + 4. ESA CCI programme: Sea ice climate data 5. FP7 GMES projects: SIDARUS, ICEMAR 6. Annual meeting in Sopot, 6 7 November 7. Plans for 2013
Arctic Marine Forecasting Centre of MyOcean-2 WP 6 Arctic MFC (Operations and Service lead) (Science and Technology lead) NERSC Operations Service Tier 1 R&D Implementation & Transitioning MET.NO NERSC MET.NO NERSC NERSC IMR NIERSC MERCATOR MET.NO NERSC MET.NO IMR MyOcean Close out / MyOcean 2 Kick Off 27-29 March 2012
Arctic MFC ongoing develoment Validation Real-time products Validation chain at met.no Replacement for ENVISAT / AMSR-E products SST Ice drift product Reanalysis (1991-2010) SST offsets NOAA / OSTIA Ice type classification YI/FYI/MYI Albedo (à la Laine et al 2004) R&D Refinements of existing data Along-swath SST (L2P?) New data for assimilation Ice thickness / freeboard CryoSAT, SMOSIce New sea ice model developments Ice drift + deformations Ice surface temperature Discrimination MIZ/pack ice MyOcean Close out / MyOcean 2 Kick Off 27-29 March 2012
01 Nov 2012 0000 Temperature 5m depth
01 Nov 2012 0000 Sea ice concentration
Daily sea ice extent from passive microwave data Blue: mean ice extent in September (1979-2006) Red: ice extent in September 2012 http://arctic-roos.org
MyOcean Sea Ice and Wind Thematic Assembly Center http://myocean.met.no/siw- TAC/index.html
Sea Ice ECV Objective: develop timeseries of sea ice essential variables from satellite data archives according to GCOS requirements Product name Sea ice concentration Sea ice thickness Sensors Areas Spatial grid Period Temporal resolution Passive microwave radiometer Radar altimeter Arctic and Antarctic L3: 25 x 25 km Arctic L3: 100x100 km 1978-2008 Daily 1993-2012 Monthly (Oct-April) Consortium includes 7 Arctic ROOS members
Sea ice concentration products The project will provide homogeneous ice concentration data sets for Arctic and Antarctic with quantified and validated error estimates based on validation data. The data sets will be produced by the best available algorithms, selected after intercomparison using the Round Robin data sets
CryoSat-2: first results of ice thickness retrieval Oct 2010- March 2011 Copyright ESA, 2012
Thickness of thin ice from satellite data Passive microwave data from SMOS Algorithm development by University of Bremen Animation of daily maps for October December 2011 13 cm Annual meeting 22-23 November 2012 Arctic ROOS report EuroGOOS
In Situ platforms September 2012
Platforms providing data to In Situ TAC (Status for Arctic region before summer 2012)
Plans for 2013 Consolidation and further development of Arctic Marine Forecasting system Including more in situ data from partners who are not yet providing data (ships, ice buoys, etc.) Cooperation with EEA, EMODNET, regarding in situ data New satellite products for sea ice (CryoSat, SMOS, etc.) ESA CCI programme: prepare Phase 2 New member to sign MoU: UNIS Arctic ROOS website: data dissemination, data portals Annual meeting in first week of November 2013