From 4 to 9 June 2023, the IGS Sea Ice symposium will take place in Bremerhaven, Germany. This symposium will invite contributions by the international sea ice research community to exchange recent findings and advances in observations, process understanding, and modeling of sea ice world-wide.
It’s probably the best timing to gather most of Scientific Advisory Committee and Stakeholder Board members in the same room to consider the uncertainties associated with measurements from satellites, aircraft and in situ sensors following the approach defined in the Quality Assurance Framework for Earth Observation (www.qa4eo.org).
This side meeting will take place on the Friday 9th of June, from 17:00 to 19:00.
We will work together through the first two steps of the five-step approach to uncertainties: we will consider the different measurands for the different types of measurement, establish a measurement model in mathematical notation and produce uncertainty tree diagrams showing the traceability of the information in the model. We will consider satellite observations (the ‘thematic data product’ (TDP)) and the supporting sub-orbital measurements (the ‘fiducial reference measurements’ (FRM)), as well as the necessary transformations needed to compare different measurements (representation uncertainties).
Workshop format
At the end of the International Symposium on Sea Ice conference week, on the 9th of June at 17:00, we’ll want something different, and this workshop aims to be different. It will consist of two 45-minute discussions around posters with pens in hand. We’ll build on each other’s ideas and edit it there and then. There will also be drinks and nibbles to sustain us through the activity.
Workshop plan
The workshop will be a very interactive workshop, with posters to write on put up around the room. There will be four “stations”:
The workshop will last 2 hours.
Wrap up and conclusion
The SIN’XS consortium, helped with NPL, will tidy up and collate all the material for documenting, and all the results will be shared with the workshop participants, and presented during the next SIN’XS Workshop, to be held in Autumn.
