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Sign up for the SAGE Daybinar "Beyond Sea Ice Area: Exploring Alternative Diagnostics for Assessing Polar Climate Change

The Sea Ice Age and Drift (SAGE) Project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) is organizing a multi-time zone, one-day webinar (daybinar) on Friday September 19, 09:00-20:00 CEST.
This event has three main objectives:

1. To review the current state of Essential Climate Variable (ECV) sea ice products, with a focus on metrics beyond sea ice area and extent;
2. To refine the scientific and technical requirements for a new sea ice age product to be developed within the SAGE project but benefiting from the community's input;
3. To explore broader issues around polar data, including their robustness and relevance in a changing and increasingly turbulent world.

Confirmed speakers (full program to be confirmed in late August)

• 09.00 CEST. Signe Aaboe (Meteorologisk Institutt, Norway): Overview of the SAGE project
• 09.40 CEST. Sarah Connors (ESA): Overview of the ESA-CCI activities and ECVs under development
• 10.30 CEST. Alex Fraser (AAPP, Tasmania): Large-scale characterisation of sea ice from satellite remote sensing: a focus on fast ice and the marginal ice zone
• 11.00 CEST. Dirk Notz (U. Hamburg, Germany): The one-, two- and three-dimensional nature of global sea ice change
• 11.30 CEST. Jack Landy (UiT, Norway): Recent advances in remotely-sensed sea ice thickness from CryoSat-2, ICESat-2 and SWOT
• 14.30 CEST. Anton Korosov: Computation of sea ice age using Lagrangian advection of a triangular mesh: observational and modeling perspectives
• 15.00 CEST. Richard Davy (NERSC): Making sea ice age comparable across models and observations
• 16.00 CEST. Walt Meier (NSIDC): Sea ice age products at NSIDC: lessons learned.
• 19.00 CEST. Ted Maksym (WHOI, USA): Observing Antarctic sea ice processes with ICESat-2

Daybinar format

The meeting will be 100% online. The daybinar will alternate between presentations and discussion sessions (including live surveys) to collect feedback and guidance from partipants regarding the fitness of purpose of current polar data and the development of a new sea ice age product.

Registration

Registration is free but mandatory. Please sign up here. Participants are welcome to attend all or part of the daybinar. Practical information with the final schedule will be sent out in late August.

Contact or questions

François Massonnet (francois.massonnet@uclouvain.be)