National Ice Center The Nation’s and the DOD’s Single Inter-agency for Operational Ice Analysis and Forecasting
1950s - Navy commenced global sea ice services National Weather Bureau and U.S. Navy Fleet Weather Central collocated in Suitland (FOB #4) 1960s - NOAA commenced Alaskan & Great Lakes advisories Navy/NOAA Joint Ice Center formed Navy-NOAA MOA National Ice Center formed - Navy, NOAA, & U.S. Coast Guard MOA as Annex to Navy-NOAA Umbrella MOA – Inter-agency National Ice Center History
NATIONAL ICE CENTER/ NAVAL ICE CENTER NAVICECEN National Ice Center Naval Oceanographic Stennis Space Center, MS Commander Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command Commander Fleet Forces Command Icebreaking & Ice Operations (G-OPN-1) Office of Navigation Aids (G-OPN) Operations Policy Directorate (G-OP) OPERATIONS Directorate (G-0) COMMANDANT United States Coast Guard National Ice Center NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing & Distribution National Environmental Satellite, Data & Information Service National Ice Center
NIC CUSTOMER BASE DOD SUBFORCE INTEL (ONI/N23) ARMY/AIR FORCE MARINE CORP METOC/OTSR Army Corps Eng PENTAGON Camp David/SITE R NOAA NWSFOs NWS MODELS NMFS NSIDC NCDC NODC NGDC Public Interest DHS/USCG ICEBREAKERS - Polar (CGHQ) - Great Lakes (D9) - Ches/Del Bays (D5) SECURITY MARINE SAFETY IIP (Mar -Aug) OTHER NSF NASA RESEARCH ACADEMIA *INDUSTRY INTERNATIONAL NIC Customers Commercial users(NIC products on WWW): Oil, Transportation, Tourism, Fishing Fleets, Minerals
Sea Ice Products: the NIC Process DMSP OLS Ice ReconRADARSATDMSP SSM/I NIC Ice chart GB data per day Foreign Ice Charts QuickSCAT AVHRR Models/ PIPS 2.0 Gerson
Ice Drift NM/Week Annotated Imagery Products
Tailored Support
NIC Ice Chart with Int’l Color Code
Automated Ice Edge Automated chart (SSM/I J019) compared to the analyst derived chart for the same day. Final Product Comprised of: SSMI NASA Team II QuikScat Integrated along with Imagery Value-added ice edge from NIC analyst (if available) Backfill of SSMI ice concentrations
North American Ice Service National Ice Center and Canadian Ice Service
NOAA Satellite Operations Facility Opening September 2005 Questions?