CICE Consortium User Workshop and Tutorial
Hilton Santa Fe
Earth’s polar regions are undergoing a dramatic transformation in response to climate change. Sea-ice modeling is crucial for understanding and predicting these changes. CICE is the global standard for sea-ice modeling applications including scientific research, weather and ice forecasting, maritime operations planning, and global climate projections.
The overall theme of this workshop is future physics development for sea-ice models in the context of polar change and burgeoning observational data.
For example, the influence of waves on sea ice thinning and retreat is neither well-understood nor well represented in models. Recently, a year-long deployment of hundreds of instruments to the Arctic secured a wealth of new, in situ measurement data from the ice, atmosphere and ocean, which is now beginning to be compared with model output and used to further develop models. Simultaneously, new satellite-derived sea ice observations have spawned fresh possibilities for constraining the simulated sea ice state, although significant questions remain about appropriate methodologies for data assimilation unique to sea ice. This workshop will identify model weaknesses and our gaps in understanding that can be filled with in situ, remotely sensed and modeling data, engendering collaborative, follow-on model/observation synthesis activities.
By exchanging ideas and advancements across research and forecasting contexts, participants will enhance understanding of sea ice structure, dynamics and Earth-system interactions that are critically important for predicting likely future changes to polar regions.
This workshop will also include a one-day tutorial, to promote smoother integration of community-driven advancements into the models that will, in turn, benefit the research community as a whole as part of our cyclical process of model development. The tutorial will provide investigators with deeper insights into sea-ice physics, models and sharing new developments for broader community use through the Consortium's open-source repositories.
Organizing Committee:
- Elizabeth Hunke, LANL
- Erin Thomas, LANL
- David Bailey, NSF NCAR
- Alek Petty, University of Maryland
- Richard Allard, Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center
The CICE Consortium is an international group of stakeholders and primary developers that advances state-of-the-art se-ice modeling in the public domain through close collaboration among environmental research and forecasting centers, and ultimately advances the understanding of key processes that contribute to rapid environmental changes in the polar regions.
