The series of “International Arctic Metrology Workshops” has been established to facilitate the cooperation between the international metrology community and the researchers operating in the Arctic. The key topics are focusing on improving data quality through instrument calibration and uncertainty evaluation, including ad hoc infrastructures, laboratories and projects.
SIOS in cooperation with the National Institute of Metrology of Italy (INRiM - Andrea Merlone) and UNIS organises the 5th Arctic Metrology Workshop. Previous workshops were held in Torino (Italy) in 2015, Oslo 2016 in conjunction with the EURAMET GA, Ny-Ålesund in 2017 and again Oslo in 2019.
- Time: 8-9 June 2022
- Location: online (due to few physical participants we moved the workshop entirely online)
- Registration deadline: 6 June 2022
This workshop is open for all interested, especially operators of measuring stations in Svalbard and other Arctic regions, and metrologists from EURAMET projects.
- Aim of the workshop
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The aim of the workshop is
- to address metrology experience and activities in support of arctic research, to present the expertise of European metrology institutes and universities, to the scientific communities operating in the Arctic,
- to plan the feasibility of joint efforts towards:
- the creation of permanent metrology infrastructures for arctic research, directly linking metrological traceability to on-site measurements (after the Ny-Ålesund Vaskeri lab, a new laboratory can be proposed in Longyearbyen for training and calibration);
- evaluation of uncertainty for specific instrumentation and stations;
- identification of candidate reference stations within the existing ones and pre-certification;
- preparation phase to join the GCOS Surface Reference Network.
- Programme
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Wednesday, 8 June 2022 (15:00 - 18:00 CEST)
- 15:00-15:10 Welcome - SIOS-KC
- 15:10 - 15:30 Opening: Arctic metrology since 2014 - Andrea Merlone (INRiM and CNR-ISP – BIPM-WMO)
- 15:30 - 15:50 Instrument calibration for the climate change tower in Ny-Ålesund - Angelo Viola (CNR-ISP)
- 15:50 - 16:10 Specifying, designing and implementing a global surface reference network - first steps for the GSRN - Sarah Gallager (Met Eireann - GCOS-GSRN)
- 16:10 - 16:30 Meteorological observations in Longyearbyen: stations and instruments - Sebastian Sikora (UNIS)
- 16:30 - 16:40 BREAK
- 16:40 - 17:00 Data series from the CCT in in Ny-Ålesund - Mauro Mazzola and Francesca Becherini (CNR-ISP)
- 17:00 - 17:20 Challenges in solid precipitation measurements in a windy environment - Luca G. Lanza and A. Cauteruccio (UniGe)
- 17:20 - 17:40 A facility for SI-traceable calibration of upper-air sounding instruments - Vito C. Fernicola (INRiM)
- 17:40 - 18:00 Marine research: the contribution from the metrology community - Paola Fisicaro (LNE) and Marc Le Menn (SHOM)
Thursday, 9 June 2022 (9:00 - 11:30 CEST)
- 09:00 - 09:10 Resume from day 1 - Andrea Merlone
- 09:10 - 09:30 The GUM: why uncertainty matters - Walter Bich (JCGM)
- 09:30 - 09:50 A transportable calibration facility for permafrost temperature sensors calibration - Chiara Musacchio (INRiM)
- 09:50 - 10:10 Rock temperature measurements in high-alpine cryosphere: the role of metrology - Graziano Coppa (INRiM)
- 10:10 - 10:30 Air Temperature Metrology - Åge Andreas Falsen Olsen (JV – CCT TG Air)
- 10:30 - 10:50 Non-contact air temperature measurements - Marco Pisani (INRiM)
- 10:50 - 11:30 Roundtable
- Reference observations in the Arctic
- Extending metrological infrastructures in Svalbard
