ACCIBERG

Arctic Cross-Copernicus forecast products for sea Ice and iceBERGs

Developing a new iceberg forecasting service and improving the quality of Arctic sea ice forecasts across Copernicus Marine and Climate Change services

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Iceberg Tagging Campaigns

The west coast of Greenland is home to the main iceberg-producing glaciers of the region, where huge icebergs calve directly into the sea. The area between Disko Bay and Melville Bay can produce thousands of icebergs each year, the largest of which are ground in the fjords and never become free.

Newsletter No. 5

The latest ACCIBERG newsletter is now available to download, with reports on the latest project results on the iceberg forecast developments and progress in putting these forecasts on Copernicus’ EDITO Platform and
MetNo’s Værio Platform.

ACCIBERG at the UNOC3 Conference

Together with our project partners from Mercator Océan Intl., Laurent Bertino joined the UN Ocean Conference 2025 to demonstrate progress made in the ACCIBERG project on how to forecast sea ice and icebergs. He joined the European Digital Twin Ocean platformat the European Digital Ocean Pavilion "La Baleine" on Thursday 5th June.

ACCIBERG 2nd Annual Meeting

All ACCIBERG partners and Advisory Board members are invited to the 2nd Annual Meeting, taking place as a hybrid event, both online and in Oslo, Norway. 

Draft Agenda:

  • 21st January from 10:00 to 16:00. Scientific presentations to review the progress and problems at exactly half the duration of the project.
  • 22nd January from 9:00 to 12:00. Technical discussions to delve in-depth into technical matters.

Registration

Please could all attendees (online and in person) register via the link here, by the 10th January 2025.

Logistics

The meeting will take place at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), directions to get there can be found on their website. The address is:

Henrik Mohns plass 1
0313 Oslo
Phone: +47 22 96 30 00

The easiest and quickest way to travel to MET Norway from Oslo Airport Gardermoen is by the airport express train. But you can also go by express bus.

Recommendations for hotels in Oslo: 

  • SmartHotel
  • ComfortHotel
  • Thon Hotel Gyldenløve
  • Thon Hotel Slottsparken
  • Thon Hotel Europa


Agenda

Tuesday 21st January 2025

10:00 Laurent Bertino: Reminders of ACCIBERG and status at mid-term.  

10:30 WP2 session 
Steffen Tietsche (ECMWF) WP2 overview (10 mins)
Daniel Befort (ECMWF, online): ICECAP version 1 (20 min)
Renaud Dussurget (MOi): plans for ICECAP deployment on EDITO (15 min)
Jiping Xie / Yue Ying: Initial sea ice ensemble forecasts with ECMWF EPS (15 min)
Michael Mayer (ECMWF, online): Update on SPP work (15 min)


12:00 - 13:15 Lunch 

13:15 WP3 session.
Marina Durán Moro (MET Norway): Assimilation of Level-1 Brightness Temperature 

13:45 WP4 session 
Laurent Bertino / Achref Othmani / Mohamed Babiker (NERSC) WP4 overview (20 minutes) 
Jørgen Buus-Hinkler (DMI): progress in remote sensing of icebergs 
Nick Hughes (MET Norway) Plans for iceberg buoys and IceWatch 

15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break 

15:15 WP5 Discussion items:
Laurent Bertino (NERSC) Reporting of ACCIBERG (10 minutes) 
Take-home from stakeholder and user workshop 8th November in Frascati 
Olivia Faumy (MOi, remotely): Further avenues for dissemination of ACCIBERG
Broader Discussions / plans towards the coming period

16:00 End of formal meeting. 


Wednesday 22nd January 2025

9:00 - 10:45 Detailed technical discussions (2-3 breakout groups) 
WP2: ICECAP integration in WEkEO, ARC-MFC ensembles, stochastic sea ice modeling 
WP3: Data Assimilation of Tb in TOPAZ5 (Thomas, Marina, Yue, Atle) 
WP4: Iceberg buoys and OpenBerg Demonstrations (Laurent, Nick, Keld, …) 

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 

11:00 - 12:00 Summary from the breakout groups (Steffen, Thomas/Marina, Laurent) 

12:00 End of meeting