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Summary of ice services and products, SAR coordination, and data utilization for sea ice, oil pollution, and special projects to support icebreaking, marine traffic, climate monitoring, and weather forecasting.
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Operational Ice Services SAR coordination meeting St-Hubert, Quebec Darlene Langlois Ice and Marine Services Branch March 6, 2008
Overview • Services and products • Reasons for monitoring: • Sea Ice • Oil pollution • Special projects • Data used • Satellite ordering • Other ice services
Ice information in support of: Icebreaking operations Marine Traffic Climate monitoring Weather forecasting Services through: Reconnaissance Applied Science Analysis and Forecasts Product Distribution and Archive Services Provided
Products • Bulletins (short and long range), Warnings, Ice Edge Analysis • Regional Charts • Seasonal Summaries • Iceberg Analysis and Prediction • Ice Climatology • SAR images needed for: • Sea ice detection and classification • Iceberg detection • Oil spill monitoring • Lake freeze-up and break-up • Applied Science
Arctic Gulf West Coast Great Lakes Oil Pollution Monitoring EC MA
RADARSAT ordering • Verify operational requirements for sea ice 3 weeks in advance • Approximately 350 images / month • Covers all ice-covered waters • High frequency (daily coverage in active shipping areas) • Weekly coverage in archive areas (ie Arctic in the winter) • Determine oil pollution partners’ requirements 3 months in advance; • Approximately 100 images per month • Covers non-ice covered waters
Other Ice Centre’s requirements • Finnish Ice Service – 220-250 SAR images between November and May over the Baltic Sea
U.S. National Ice Center (NIC) Products and Services Global Ice Analysis Lake Ice Bulletins and Notice to Mariners Global Ice Climatology Global Ice Edge Analysis Global Ice Edge Monitoring Global Regional Charts Seasonal Outlooks and Summaries 15 and 30 Day Forecasts Southern Hemisphere Iceberg Monitoring Tailored Annotated Imagery Support
NIC Southern Hemisphere Global Ice Monitoring and Iceberg Detection
Norwegian Ice Service • Year-round ice service • East Greenland to Novaya Semlya. • Main focus around Svalbard - 250-300 RADARSAT scenes. • Fram Strait - 50 RADARSAT scenes • Fram Strait and the Barents Sea – 150 Envisat scenes
Danish Meteorological Institute • Greenland area – 500 SAR images / year • Ice charts, iceberg detection • Most for Cape Farewell area • Secondly for Disko Bay area • Caspian Sea – 50 SAR images