IceAnalysts Workshop (June 2008)
Changes:new section on materials.
Local information for the
Ice
Analysts workshop to be held in June 2008 at the BSH
(www.bsh.de) in Rostock,Germany.
Very short for the beginning, will be updated latest mid February.
Location:
Address: Neptunalle 5, 18057 Rostock.
At the workshop all standard facilities are available (computer connection,
beamer, flip chart, overhead projector, etc).
Transportation
The nearest airport is Rostock-Laage (http://www.rostock-airport.de/), but being a smaller airport direct flight are available only from/to Copenhagen, Köln, Nürnberg and München (plus some direct flight to tourist spots).
Larger airports which can be reached by train are Hamburg and Berlin. The medium sized airport Lübeck is also an option. The Train takes about 2 hours to Hamburg Central station or to Lübeck, and 2:40 to Berlin.
Apart from train and plane there is also the possibility to reach Rostock by ship from Helsinki (http://www.superfast.com/), Trelleborg (http://www.ttline.com/de/Germany/, Gedser and Ventspils (last 3 see http://www.scandlines.de/en/main.htm).
Within the city there is a good local transportation network.
Accommodation
There are a good number of hotels in Rostock There will be special hotel rates which can be booked over the BSH. In 2007 these rates were starting at about 60€ per night with breakfast, exact rates will be given some weeks before the workshop. Similar rates can often also be found at resellers on the Web.
For people liking maritime ambiente, there are also rooms on an old ship starting at 30€ the night (see http://www.ms-georg-buechner.m-vp.de/).
Meals
Lunch is available at the BSH staff restaurant (3-4€ per meal). One evening a non hosted dinner will be organized.
Leisure/ Tourism
For accompanying persons or if there is the wish to spend some more days in or near Rostock, there is ample things to do. Spend some days at the Sea in Warnemünde, visit the amber museum in Ribnitz-Damgarten, take a steam train to Heiligendamm where the G8 met in 2007 or play a round of golf. For a day trip you can visit the nice old city of Stralsund with its maritime museum, or drive to Peenemünde where you can inform yourself about early rocket technology. And lots more.
Touristic information (with some links only in German): http://www.rostock.de/Internet/stadtverwaltung/tourismus/default.htm
further information in English: http://www.hhog.de/3105.html
Interactive Map (in german): http://geoportal.rostock.de/
Materials
One possibiity to access the accuracy of ice charts is to determine all errors sources and calculate how these errors probagate into the final ice chart. Another possibility is to make several "measurements" and evaluate the differences. Whereas this is easy for measurments like temperature, it is not so straight forward for ice charts. The Baltic is probably the only region where several, "independent" ice charts exists over a long period in time. So it should be possible to estimate how the uncertainities in the ice charts have changed over time.
To make such attemps possible during (and before) the workshop, ice charts from different ice services for a same day were scanned in. There are available here in two different resolutions, medium (still being up to 3MB) and large (up to 13MB).
| Date | Germany | Poland | Sweden | Finland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.02.1963 | medium / large | medium / large | medium / large | medium / large |
| 21.03.1988 | medium / large | medium / large | medium / large | medium / large |
Contact: German Ice Service, Email ice[at]bsh.de. Tel +49 381 4563-780