SWARP: Ships and Waves Reaching Polar
regions
Laurent Bertino, Timothy Williams
Nansen Environment
and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway
Contract number 607476
Objectives
As of today, there is no forecasting service in GMES that is valid
for the gray zone where waves-in-ice processes dominate.
• Aim: Filling the gaps existing in
the GMES services with
respect to waves in sea ice
1) extending the validity of wave
and sea ice forecasting
systems in the marginal ice
zone,
2) developing remote sensing
methods for routine
monitoring of combined risks
of waves and ice
SWARP Partnership
Work Packages
NERSC
IFREMER
NERC
ODL
NERSC
NAVTOR
NERSC
TOPAZ - North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
11 – 16 km resolution (800 × 880)
28 hybrid vertical levels
Fram Strait
3.5 km resolution (410 × 320)
Barents and Kara Sea
5.0 km resolution (510 × 450)
TOPAZ is the official European system for
monitoring and forecasting the Arctic.
It is exploited operationally at met.no
http://www.myocean.eu.org
Model setup
Tides
(FES2004)
Topaz4 NA & AO
Nesting: Ocean
and Ice
myocean.met.no
Boundary
Conditions
Rivers
(ERAI + TRIP05)
Ocean and Sea Ice
Model
(EVP + MIZ)
2-3 days Sea Ice
Forecast
(3 days EVP+MIZ web)
(2 days WIM wave data)
Atmosphere
(ECMWFR)
WW3
Ifremer.fr
Nesting
Forcing
WIM module
(Waves-in-Ice)
Forecast Models
Validation
OceanDataLab,
NIERSC, Ifremer,
NERSC
Validation
Project schedule at a glance
• Mo 1-12: Developments
– Models
– Remote sensing methods
• Mo 13-24: Validation
– Integration in NAVTOR’s NavPlanner
• Mo 25-36: Demonstration to users
– Mo 30: Service launch
– Mo 36: Final project meeting
Dissemination plan (WP7)
• Web sites
• Data service
– http://swarp.nersc.no
– http://bit.ly/15k2FDW
• Short movie
– Interviews this week
– Animations
– Scenes from (previous) research cruises
Practical information
• Soon: a SWARP website with internal area
– Sharing presentations
– Events, news …
• A SWARP logo (suggestions?)
• How to acknowledge the project
– EU FP7 logo on the first slide of your presentations
– Grant number 607476 acknowledged in publication
• Consortium agreement: status
– Inputs from NERC, UO, NIERSC, ODL, NERSC
– Waiting for IFREMER, ISMER, NAVTOR
– Issues about the text? (IPR, …)
Finances
• SWARP has 3 reporting periods
– End of January 2015, 2016 and 2017
– Use of EU online reporting tools (Emdesk, Force)