Objectives

The workshop, which is the 12th in a series organized with the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG), aims at improving international capabilities to perform sea ice prediction on timescales ranging from hours to a season. The aim of the workshop is to discuss cross-cutting issues in sea ice modelling, assimilation and observations and how deficiencies of current systems can be diagnosed and addressed more efficiently. 

General topics: 

• Sea ice data assimilation (methods and results) 
• Sea ice observations and uncertainties 
• Sea ice model parameterizations and coupling to ocean and atmosphere models 
• Verification approaches for sea ice analyses and forecasts
• Recent research to sea ice operation transfer—Automated prediction systems