Ice Forecast and Route Optimization

Team within MeMi Group	Björn Hendrik Fock, Andrea Gierisch, K. Heinke Schlünzen
Extended Team at University of Hamburg	Institute of Oceanography: A. Beitsch, D. Bröhan, M.Dobrynin, L. Kaleschke, T. Pohlmann Meteorological Institute: G. Müller
Project Partners	AWI (Sea Ice Physics), BSH (Ice Service), HSVA (Ice and Offshore), FastOpt GmbH, O.A.Sys GmbH, University of Bremen (Institute of Environmental physics)
Funding	BMWi within Nationaler Masterplan Maritime Technologien (NMMT)
Project period	2012-10 to 2014-09
Project homepage	www.iro-2.de

Project overview

The aim of the project IRO-2 is to prototype a system for sea ice forecasting and ship routing for safe and economic shipping in the Arctic. System components include remote sensing, an arctic wide ice/ocean data assimilation system, a regional atmosphere - sea ice - ocean - model and a ship routing module. For the last project year, a system test is planned with a ship cruise in the Barents Sea.

Project contribution

Our contribution to the project is the development of the regional model system HAMMER based on the atmospheric model METRAS, the sea ice model MESIM and the ocean model HAMSOM. Initial and boundary conditions are taken from global weather forecasts, results of the arctic wide model NAOSIM/ICEDAS and remote sensing data.

The main work is conducted on the system development and operationalization of the research models by technical improvements and scientific evaluation of processes and time scales.

Available Master thesis topic

MeMi-5: Sensitivity of regional sea ice forecast with METRAS/MESIM on the driving global weather prediction (more information)

Publications

Fock, B. H., Beitsch, A., Bröhan, D., Dobrynin, M., Gierisch, A., Kaleschke, L., Pohlmann, T. Schlünzen, K. H. (2012): Ice Forecast and Route Optimization. Poster at SMOSIce User Workshop. Hamburg. 2012-02-17. Download
Gierisch, A., Fock, B.H., Kaleschke, L., Pohlmann, T., Schlünzen, K.H. (2012): Short-range sea ice modeling: Physical processes and their time scales. Oral presentation at the "IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference", Montréal, Canada. 2012-04-22/27.
Kaleschke, L., Beitsch, A., Bröhan, D., Dobrynin, M., Fock, B.H., Gerdes, R., Gierisch, A., Heygster, G., Holfort, J., Huerta-Casas, A., Jochmann, P., Kaminski, T., Kauker, F., Melsheimer, C., Müller, G., Reimer, N., Schlünzen, K.H., Segschneider, J., Schwarz, J., Strübing, K., Tegtmeier, J. (2013): IRO-2 Eisvorhersage und Eisroutenoptimierung. 25. Internationale Polartagung 2013-03-17/22.
Schlünzen, K.H. Flagg, D.D. Fock, B.H., Gierisch, A., Lüpkes, C., Reinhardt, V., Spensberger, C. (2012): Scientific Documentation of the Multiscale Model System M-SYS (METRAS, MITRAS, MECTM, MICTM, MESIM). MEMI Technical Report 4. Meteorologisches Institut KlimaCampus Universität Hamburg. 138 p. Download
Schlünzen, K.H., Bungert, U., Flagg, D.D., Fock, B.H., Gierisch, A., Grave, D., Kirschner, P., Lüpkes, C., Reinhardt, V., Ries, H., Schoetter, R., Spensberger, C., Uphoff, M. (2012): Technical Documentation of the Multiscale Model System M-SYS (METRAS, MITRAS, MECTM, MICTM, MESIM). MEMI Technical Report 3. Meteorologisches Institut KlimaCampus Universität Hamburg. 117 p. Download

Journal and book articles

2012

Schlünzen, K.H. Flagg, D.D. Fock, B.H., Gierisch, A., Lüpkes, C., Reinhardt, V., Spensberger, C. (2012): Scientific Documentation of the Multiscale Model System M-SYS (METRAS, MITRAS, MECTM, MICTM, MESIM). MEMI Technical Report 4. Meteorologisches Institut KlimaCampus Universität Hamburg. 138 p. Download.

Schlünzen, K.H., Bungert, U., Flagg, D.D., Fock, B.H., Gierisch, A., Grave, D., Kirschner, P., Lüpkes, C., Reinhardt, V., Ries, H., Schoetter, R., Spensberger, C., Uphoff, M. (2012): Technical Documentation of the Multiscale Model System M-SYS (METRAS, MITRAS, MECTM, MICTM, MESIM).. MEMI Technical Report 3. Meteorologisches Institut KlimaCampus Universität Hamburg. 117 p. Download.

Conference Contributions

2013

Kaleschke, L., Beitsch, A., Bröhan, D., Dobrynin, M., Fock, B.H., Gerdes, R., Gierisch, A., Heygster, G., Holfort, J., Huerta-Casas, A., Jochmann, P., Kaminski, T., Kauker, F., Melsheimer, C., Müller, G., Reimer, N., Schlünzen, K.H., Segschneider, J., Schwarz, J., Strübing, K., Tegtmeier, J. (2013): IRO-2 Eisvorhersage und Eisroutenoptimierung.. 25. Internationale Polartagung 2013-03-17/22.

2012

Fock, B. H., Beitsch, A., Bröhan, D., Dobrynin, M., Gierisch, A., Kaleschke, L., Pohlmann, T. Schlünzen, K. H. (2012): Ice Forecast and Route Optimization.. Poster at SMOSIce User Workshop. Hamburg. 2012-02-17. Download.

Gierisch, A., Fock, B.H., Kaleschke, L., Pohlmann, T., Schlünzen, K.H. (2012): Gierisch, A., Fock, B.H., Kaleschke, L., Pohlmann, T., Schlünzen, K.H. (2012): Short-range sea ice modeling: Physical processes and their time scales. Oral presentation at the "IPY 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference", Montréal, Canada. 2012-04-22/27.