The SICCI project team had a meeting to kick-off its sea ice drift activities. Hosted at IFREMER (Brest, France), the two-days workshop was aiming at reviewing and consolidating the plans and objectives for the investigations. The methodology to perform algorithm intercomparison was discussed, as well as the design of the Round Robin Data Package (RRDP). These will be further documented in a Product Validation Plan (due end of April 2016). The first results of the algorithm intercomparison are expected by Fall 2016... stay tuned! Read more »

The workshop "Extension and Improvement of the Mean Sea Level estimation in the Arctic regions using space altimetry data” was organised by International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern 15-18 June. The workshop brought together experts working with altimeter data in the Arctic in order to exchange information between the sea ice and sea level research communities. The workshop aimed to develop co-operation between the two expert groups by working together on common problems - namely sea ice and lead detection, retracking and local sea level anomaly determination. Read more »

The ice concentration team had a working meeting at DMI, Copenhagen 10-11 June 2015 to finalise the definition of the RRDP in the phase-2 and discuss relevant tasks, including update of the open water and consolidated ice datasets, thin ice and melt ponds datasets, adding data from new sensors, ERA interim data, buoy data. Technical specifications were also discussed.

The International Sea-Ice Concentration and Thickness Evaluation and Intercomparison Workshop was organized on 18-19 September 2014 by University of Hamburg at the Integrated Climate Data Center (ICDC). The workshop was attended by more that 50 participants and the main objective was to evaluate the results of the CCI SEa Ice project. More information about the workshop is found at:
http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/seaice-conc-2014 Read more »

Polar Pathfinder Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Sea Ice Motion Vectors, Version 2
Data now accessible at http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0116

The Sea Ice CCI Annual Review Meeting no. 2 will be heldt 8-9 January 2014 Location: Finnish Meteorological Institute Dynamicum Building (Tellus Room) Erik Palménin aukio 1, Helsinki

Agenda:  SICCI AR2 Agenda v1.doc

Advances in processing of ERS-1/2 and ENVISAT radar altimeter (RA) data have shown that these instruments can be used calculate low resolution sea ice thickness from measurements of ice freeboard. By using known values of ice density, snow thickness and snow density, ice thickness can be retrieved for the winter months from 1993 to April 2012. Knowledge of the natural variability of sea ice thickness is critical for their representation in global climate models. Read more »

The workshop will take place on February 18-19, 2013 at the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen and is sponsored by the |European Space Agency (ESA), WCRP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project Office and the Danish Meteorological Institute. Read more »