1. SWARP: Ships and Waves Reaching Polar regions
Laurent Bertino, Timothy Williams

 Nansen Environment and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway
Contract number

2. 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

3. SWARP Partnership

4. Work Packages
NERSC
IFREMER
NERC
ODL
NERSC
NAVTOR
NERSC

5. 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

6. OceanDataLab, NIERSC, Ifremer, NERSC
Model setup
Tides
(FES2004)
Topaz4 NA & AO
Nesting: Ocean and Ice
myocean.met.no
Boundary Conditions
Ocean and Sea Ice Model
(EVP + MIZ)
2-3 days Sea Ice Forecast
(3 days EVP+MIZ web)
(2 days WIM wave data)
Rivers
(ERAI + TRIP05)
Atmosphere
(ECMWFR)
NB! Today only EVP+MIZ on 3 day forecast on webpage, WIM module only 2 days wave data
WIM module
(Waves-in-Ice)
Validation
OceanDataLab, NIERSC, Ifremer, NERSC
WW3
Ifremer.fr
Nesting
Forcing
Forecast Models
Validation

7. 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

8. Dissemination plan (WP7)
Web sites
Data service
Short movie
Interviews this week
Animations
Scenes from (previous) research cruises

9. 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 acknowledged in publication
Consortium agreement: status
Inputs from NERC, UO, NIERSC, ODL, NERSC
Waiting for IFREMER, ISMER, NAVTOR
Issues about the text? (IPR, …)

10. Finances SWARP has 3 reporting periods
End of January 2015, 2016 and 2017
Use of EU online reporting tools (Emdesk, Force)