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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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 

Events

A series of training and stakeholder workshops will take place to demonstrate the ACCIBERG results, get user feedback and provide training for a range of Copernicus Marine services including white ocean data, MDS, MyOceanPro, and training with Jupyter notebooks, as well as the Arctic Hub. 

The first ACCIBERG Stakeholder workshop will take place on 8th November 2024 in Frascati, Italy. Registration is open now: First ACCIBERG Stakeholder Workshop.

Newsletter No. 2 January 2024

Arctic Frontiers: Two ACCIBERG presentations will take place at the Arctic Frontiers meeting, held from 29 January - 2 February 2024 in Tromsø. Both will take place on Wednesday 31st in the Science session "Navigating a Changing Arctic: Innovations for Sustainable Maritime Development. Part 2". Laurent Bertino from NERSC and Daniel Befort from ECMWF will present their work.