1. National Ice Center The Nation’s and the DOD’s Single Inter-agency for Operational Ice Analysis and Forecasting

2. 1950s - Navy commenced global sea ice services 1956 - National Weather Bureau and U.S. Navy Fleet Weather Central collocated in Suitland (FOB #4) 1960s - NOAA commenced Alaskan & Great Lakes advisories 1976 - Navy/NOAA Joint Ice Center formed Navy-NOAA MOA 1995 - National Ice Center formed - Navy, NOAA, & U.S. Coast Guard MOA as Annex to Navy-NOAA Umbrella MOA – Inter-agency National Ice Center History

3. NATIONAL ICE CENTER/ NAVAL ICE CENTER NAVICECEN National Ice Center Naval Oceanographic Stennis Space Center, MS Commander Naval Meteorology & Oceanography Command Commander Fleet Forces Command Icebreaking & Ice Operations (G-OPN-1) Office of Navigation Aids (G-OPN) Operations Policy Directorate (G-OP) OPERATIONS Directorate (G-0) COMMANDANT United States Coast Guard National Ice Center NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing & Distribution National Environmental Satellite, Data & Information Service National Ice Center

4. NIC CUSTOMER BASE DOD SUBFORCE INTEL (ONI/N23) ARMY/AIR FORCE MARINE CORP METOC/OTSR Army Corps Eng PENTAGON Camp David/SITE R NOAA NWSFOs NWS MODELS NMFS NSIDC NCDC NODC NGDC Public Interest DHS/USCG ICEBREAKERS - Polar (CGHQ) - Great Lakes (D9) - Ches/Del Bays (D5) SECURITY MARINE SAFETY IIP (Mar -Aug) OTHER NSF NASA RESEARCH ACADEMIA *INDUSTRY INTERNATIONAL NIC Customers Commercial users(NIC products on WWW): Oil, Transportation, Tourism, Fishing Fleets, Minerals

5. Sea Ice Products: the NIC Process DMSP OLS Ice ReconRADARSATDMSP SSM/I NIC Ice chart 80-90 GB data per day Foreign Ice Charts QuickSCAT AVHRR Models/ PIPS 2.0 Gerson

6. Ice Drift 20-30 NM/Week Annotated Imagery Products

7. Tailored Support

8. NIC Ice Chart with Int’l Color Code

9. Automated Ice Edge Automated chart (SSM/I J019) compared to the analyst derived chart for the same day. Final Product Comprised of: SSMI NASA Team II QuikScat Integrated along with Imagery Value-added ice edge from NIC analyst (if available) Backfill of SSMI ice concentrations

10. North American Ice Service National Ice Center and Canadian Ice Service

11. NOAA Satellite Operations Facility Opening September 2005 Questions?