IWICOS - Integrated Weather, Sea Ice and Ocean Service System. Baseline system report

The overall objective of IWICOS is to develop a prototype marine information system that will provide a single-entry access to integrated meteorological, sea ice and oceanographic (met-ice-ocean) products in electronic form, and to demonstrate this prototype for a group of users working in fisheries, sea transport, exploitation of marine resources in Northern European waters, or whose work is related to sea ice monitoring on a scientific or pre-operational basis.
 

The Baseline system currently demonstrates the metadata insertion functionality of the Broker, and the full functionality of the Service chain will be demonstrated in the Extended system. The variety of clients is dictated by the variety of requirements posed by both the different user groups and geographical areas, but the philosophy is that the data itself will be interoperable between the various client implementations. In the Baseline system implementations the user requirements are ascertained and feedback gathered for the Extended system. The following clients are developed in the project:
• A forecasting service for weather and waves in Icelandic waters (thin client)
• Wave forecasting and water level service in the Baltic Sea (thick client)
• The Met-ice-Ocean Viewer for product integration in Greenland waters (thick client)
• SAR ice image and derived products for the Arctic (balanced client)
• Java web browser for SSM/I and other met-ice-ocean data for all regions (Balanced client)
These clients will be further developed in the next phase of the project as the main elements of the Extended system. The Java web browser at DTU/DCRS have already been extensively tested and is used operationally. The first test of the Met-ice-Ocean Viewer has been carried out in Greenland