The Organizing Committee of the workshop of the International Ice Charting Working Group Data Assimilation Working Group together with the EU FP7 ICE-ARC Project held a workshop on Sea-Ice Modelling and Data Assimilation.

This was hosted by Mercator Océan at the Novotel Hotel in Toulouse.
38 peoples from nine countries all over Europe and Canada attended the two-days workshop focused on research and development related to numerical analysis and prediction – see photo of participants below.

Meeting Agenda available here: agenda_IICWG_ICEARC_15-16Sept_Toulouse.

See also Focus On the workshop on MyOcean site: http://www.myocean.eu/web/17-focus-on.php?item=2041.

This includes an interview with Leif Toudal Pedersen from the Danish Meterological Institute, where he describes the goals of the ICE-ARC project.