Alaska Climate Webinar Announcement
Historical Sea Ice Atlas for Alaska Waters
Speakers: John Walsh, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lena Krutikov,
Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
10:00-11:00 a.m. AKST
To register for the webinar, please fill out the form available at:
https://accap.uaf.edu/node/1048
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host a
webinar titled "Historical Sea Ice Atlas for Alaska Waters" on Tuesday,
18 February 2014 from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. AKST. It will be presented by
John Walsh of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Lena Krutikov of
the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP)
Coastal communities, marine navigation, industry (fishing, tourism,
offshore resource extraction), the military, and Earth/Arctic system
science research have all expressed a clear need for an Alaska sea ice
atlas. Indeed, many requests for historical and climatological sea ice
information for Alaska coastal waters presently go unanswered because
such an atlas does not exist. The availability of GIS software, in-house
expertise and historical databases extending back to the 1850s makes the
construction of an Alaska sea ice atlas timely and feasible. The atlas
consists of digitally-stored sea ice concentration data on a grid
covering all Alaska coastal waters to a distance of ~500 km (300 mi)
from shore, with a spatial resolution of 25 km. The time resolution is
monthly for the period 1850s-1950s, and weekly for the period from the
early 1950s to 2010 with the allowance of subsequent updates.
The Atlas is a joint project funded by the Alaska Ocean Observing System
(AOOS), the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP), and
the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP)
To register for the webinar, please go to:
https://accap.uaf.edu/node/1048
For further information on the ACCAP Alaska Climate webinars, please go
to: http://accap.uaf.edu/webinars.
For questions, please contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Phone: 907-474-7812
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu
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