FIRST RESULTS FROM THE CRYOCLIM SYSTEM FOR CRYOSPHERIC CLIMATE MONITORING

• Main Author: Max König
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Norway; Svalbard; glacier; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.417.3282; http://publications.nr.no/5299/Solberg_-_First_Results_from_the_CryoClim_System_for_Cryosph.pdf

The vision of the CryoClim initiative is to develop new operational services for long-term systematic climate monitoring of the cryosphere. The project develops services for sea ice and snow products of global coverage and glacier products covering Norway (mainland and Svalbard). The envisioned system will be provided as a web service based on state-of-the-art principles for spatial data. The system and services is designed to be integrated with the international system of systems for global monitoring (GEOSS) – the part of the system aimed for climate monitoring. At this stage the project has developed the first (incomplete) version of the web service, completed the sub-service for sea ice, developed the passive microwave component of the snow sub-service, made the first full glacier product coverage for mainland Norway based on optical data and validate SAR-based algorithms for glacier monitoring in Svalbard. The upcoming two project phases will complete the sub-services, produce the full time series of cryospheric products and establish fully operational production to regularly update the product sets. The web service will be completed with an operational backend system and a web service with a portal and machine-readable interfaces. 1.