Work package 6

Applications of iAOS towards Stakeholders [Months: 24-60]
IMR, NERSC, UiB, AWI, IO PAN, DTU, AU, GEUS, FMI, NORDECO, SMHI, IFREMER, MPG, EUROGOOS,
UPM, UB, UHAM, GINR, OU, NIVA, ARMINES, BSC, DNV GL

WP6 is led by Geir Ottersen (IMR, lead) and Mikael K. Sejr (AU, co-lead). The ambition of WP6 is to demonstrate application of iAOS by delivering a suite of products targeted at issues of societal importance for indigenous and local communities in the Arctic, for Europe and on global scale. These pilot applications will demonstrate services towards selected, but diverse groups of end-users. WP6 will integrate remote sensing data and in situ (including communitybased observations, delivered through WP4 and WP5, from a variety of platforms and geographical scales and locations. Incorporation of these data into analysis and modelling systems, including physical and ecological process models, climate models and forecast methods, will provide support for better products to key societal areas.

WP6 will show the iAOS capability for advancing the economic role of the Arctic by providing support for betterdocumented processes and better-informed decisions within key sectors such as shipping, petroleum, fishing, and tourism. Further, WP6 aims to demonstrate how the iAOS may be applied to further develop the accuracy of climate models, improve the understanding of biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem functioning, enhance fisheries and environmental management, increase the level of preparedness towards natural hazards, and develop better management and decision making concepts for selected local communities. Through WP6 INTAROS will demonstrate enhanced data search and retrieval, assimilation into models, validation of estimated and projected climate parameters, scientific analysis, decision-support and policy-making on local, regional and pan-Arctic scale.