5th session of the JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice

25 - 28 March 2014,

Hotel Courtyard Ottawa Downtown
350 Dalhousie Street
Ottawa, K1N 7E9
Canada
Phone: 1-613-241-1000
Fax: 1-613-241-4804
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Ottawa
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Annotated Agenda

1 Opening of the Session
1.1 Opening
1.2 Adoptation of the agenda
1.3 Working arrangements
2 Reports
2.1 Guidance and Requirements from JCOMM and WMO-IOC
2.2 Report by the Chairperson of the ETSI
2.3 Reports on national and regional practices
2.3.1 Reports by the Members of the ETSI
2.3.2 BSIM, EIS, NAIS, IICWG reports
3 Marine Safety Information (MSI) related to sea ice
3.1 Report by the ETMSS chairperson including the Arctic METAREAs: coordinators reports and exchange issues
3.2 IHO Report on the use of S100/S101 within the sea ice information / e-Navigation
3.3 Sea Ice MSI in the sub- and non-Arctic METAREAs and Antarctic
3.4 Role of ice services in Search and Rescue (SAR)
3.5 Report on Polar Code development
3.6 Guidelines for sea ice MSI in WMO manuals and guides
3.6.1 Review and update of requirements for sea ice MSI
3.6.2 Review of WMO-No. 471 and WMO-No. 558.
4 Sea ice climatology (13th session of the Steering Group for the GDSIDB project)
4.1 Reports
4.1.1 Sea-Ice Climatology in the context of CMOC
4.1.2 Reports of the GDSIDB centers (AARI and NSIDC) and the ice services
4.2 Review of the WMO sea ice guidance material related to sea ice climatology
4.3 Practices of sea ice historical data processing
4.4 Review of sea ice and icebergs products based on GDSIDB data
4.5 Proposals for new contributions to the GDSIDB from Member States
5 WMO sea ice guidance material
5.1 Review of SIGRID-3 version 3 (WMO/TD-No.1214)
5.2 Review of sea ice in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) standards
5.2.1 “Ice Objects Catalogue” version 5.2
5.2.2 “Ice in ECDIS” (S-107) specification
5.2.3 “Ice chart color standard” (WMO/TD-No.1215)
5.3 Review of “Sea ice nomenclature”, vol. I, II, III (WMO-No. 259)
5.4 Update to “Sea ice services in the World” (WMO-No. 574)
5.5 Review of coding tables related to sea ice in WMO Manual on Codes (WMO–No.306)
5.6 New publications (“Old ice in summer”, “Manual for sea-ice observers”, etc)
5.7 Harmonization and management issues
6 Sea ice information systems and product delivery
6.1 Status and perspectives of the Ice integrating portals (Ice Logistics Portal, Polarview, etc)
6.2 Sea ice in WIS
6.3 Assimilation of ice products in NWP
6.4 Vision and strategy for inter-operability and integration
7 Sea ice training and CB
7.1 Ice analyst workshop activity
7.1.1 Themes and agenda of the IAW-4 in June 2014
7.2 Training material (COMET, etc)
8 Requirements for sea ice information
8.1 Updates for sea ice in the WMO Rolling Requirements Review
8.2 JCOMM Questionnaire and user feedback
9 Collaboration and Partnership
9.1 Relations to IICWG and JCOMM bodies
9.2 Polar Initiative activities (EC-PORS, GCW, Cryonet, SAON)
9.3 Relations to other WMO/IOC and International programmes
10 ETSI future activities and working plan for the current intersessional period
11 Date and place of the next session
12 Other issues
13 Closure of the session