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FAMOS workshop
November 3 - 6, 2015, Hyannis, MA, USA
During my research stay in Montréal the 4th meeting of the Forum for Arctic Modelling and Observations took place in Cape Cod, MA. This small coastal town is close to Boston and sufficiently close to the Canadian Border, so that a large part of our working group at McGill University chose to attend this very interesting conference. And since ArcTrain supported my travelling costs and the stay there, I could easily join them and find out why so many people recommended me to go there.
The idea behind FAMOS was and is to connect modellers and observationalists on the topics of Arctic model development. One of the lessons learned from the predecessor, the Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project, was that the many problems posing themselves in Arctic modelling could not be toppled by one discipline alone. Models of the Arctic, whether they are focussing on the ocean, the sea ice or the atmosphere, are doomed to fail without good data sets to guide the development and validate the results. But at the same time innovation in the retrieval algorithms to arrive at those data sets is driven strongly by new modelling techniques and results.
And still, as shown by a quick question at FAMOS, both kinds of researchers often do not really know what the other side is doing in the own field.
To bridge this gap and to facilitate cooperation between different working groups FAMOS organises this meeting each year, trying also to keep a good mixture between renown researchers of both fields and grad students. Therefore the first day was a student day, with lectures on the different Arctic peripheral seas and their highly different properties. After a dinner to get to know the other students, the next three days were filled with interesting talks, and even more interesting discussions in the breaks and during and after the poster receptions. This way we could meet as well the famous names as other PhD students working in our field, which gave me many interesting inspirations for my work and a really nice data set to validate my model against. In the end I can only thank ArcTrain for giving me the possibility to visit this great meeting and recommend it highly to everyone working with sea ice, be it hands-on or in a model!
Mischa Ungermann
The idea behind FAMOS was and is to connect modellers and observationalists on the topics of Arctic model development. One of the lessons learned from the predecessor, the Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project, was that the many problems posing themselves in Arctic modelling could not be toppled by one discipline alone. Models of the Arctic, whether they are focussing on the ocean, the sea ice or the atmosphere, are doomed to fail without good data sets to guide the development and validate the results. But at the same time innovation in the retrieval algorithms to arrive at those data sets is driven strongly by new modelling techniques and results.
And still, as shown by a quick question at FAMOS, both kinds of researchers often do not really know what the other side is doing in the own field.
To bridge this gap and to facilitate cooperation between different working groups FAMOS organises this meeting each year, trying also to keep a good mixture between renown researchers of both fields and grad students. Therefore the first day was a student day, with lectures on the different Arctic peripheral seas and their highly different properties. After a dinner to get to know the other students, the next three days were filled with interesting talks, and even more interesting discussions in the breaks and during and after the poster receptions. This way we could meet as well the famous names as other PhD students working in our field, which gave me many interesting inspirations for my work and a really nice data set to validate my model against. In the end I can only thank ArcTrain for giving me the possibility to visit this great meeting and recommend it highly to everyone working with sea ice, be it hands-on or in a model!
Mischa Ungermann