Organizers announce a SMOSIce User Workshop
Which will be held on 17 February 2012 on the KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg inHamburg, Germany
The workshop will present the new Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) ice thickness product, as well as the scientific and technicaloutcome of the European Space Agency (ESA) SMOSIce study. Potential participants include modelers, sea ice remote sensing and assimilationexperts, representatives from operational ice services and international projects (e.g. CliC, CCI), and potential data users. Contributions,conclusions, and recommendations from the participants will be compiled in a workshop report.The technical program will include:- The SMOS Mission- SMOS Sea Ice Algorithms- Validation- Uncertainties- Sea Ice Assimilation- ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI)For more details and first results, please go to:http://wiki.zmaw.de/ifm/SMOSIce.