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The International Arctic Buoy Programme
Buoys on Ice for Science and Operations
20 plus organizations spanning
9 countries and
1 international organization
Chairman’s and Coordinator’s
Report
for DBCP 21th Session
Tim Goos - Chairman IABP
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada
Ignatius Rigor - Coordinator IABP
Polar Science Center, University of Washington
photos copyright / courtesy
Donald G. Barton
Presented by Elizabeth Horton, Naval Oceanographic Office, U.S.A.
Prepared by Edward Hudson, Meteorological Service of Environment Canada
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Programme
IABP Participants continue to meet annually
The 15th Annual Business Meeting of the IABP was
held 6-8 June 2005 in Seattle, United States. The
meeting was hosted by the Polar Science Centre,
Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington.
The meetings provide a forum to:
- Review the existing program
- Plan for the future
- Learn of each others activities through Participants Reports
- Map out areas of cooperation
- Learn of the evolving buoy science
- Learn of the host agencies activities
View from meeting room
Tour of Seaglider lab
IABP Participants are evolving to more
sophisticated buoys
JAMSTEC / METOCEAN
JCADs and POPS (Polar Ocean Profiling System) buoys
JCAD buoys of the Japan
Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology
provide oceanographic current
and temperature/ salinity data
in addition to meteorological
data. They are available via
the JAMSTEC web site
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/arc
tic/JCAD_e/jcadindex_e.htm
POPS buoys have a JCAD
style meteorological station, an
ice platform with flotation collar,
Iridium data telemetry and a
sub-surface traveling CTD
capable of measurements
from 10m down to 1000m.
JAMSTEC /METOCEAN
successfully deployed a POPS
buoy and a JCAD 9 close to
the North Pole in April as part
of NPEO 2005.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Ice Tethered Profilers
http://www.whoi.edu/itp
A prototype ITP was deployed in the ice of
Arctic Basin August 2004.
23 August 2005 an ITP was deployed from the
Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent.
Woods Hole scientists envision a loose array
of ITP instruments spanning the permanent
ice-covered ocean as a contribution to an
integrated Arctic Observing System.
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Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab
Ice Mass Balance (IMB) buoy
The IMB buoys measure air pressure,
temperature of the air, ice and ocean, ice
thickness snow depth, and ocean salinity.
From these measurements, one can also
estimate a number of other geophysical
quantities such as ocean surface heat flux and
heat storage. Several were deployed 2005.
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Programme
University of Washington
Seagliders
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Programme
http://iop.apl.washington.edu
Seaglider is a buoyancy driven autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by scientists and engineers at the
University of Washington's School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory. After seven years of
development Seaglider is slowly entering wider use in scientific deployments.
Voyages to date include the
Labrador Sea and Davis Strait.
Scientists at the University of Washington envision seagliders being a
component of an arctic observing network.
The objective of the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) is to establish and maintain
a network of data buoys in the Arctic Ocean to provide meteorological and oceanographic data
for real-time operational requirements and research purposes, including support to the World
Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Weather Watch (WWW) Programme. The Programme will build upon cooperation among
agencies and institutions with arctic interests.
Objective
continues
to be met
On 2 September 2005, there
were:
 34 buoys reporting surface
air temperature, surface air
pressure, and position
 5 buoys reporting pressure
and position
 9 buoys reporting position
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Programme
Ongoing deployments are part of the program.
2005
Batteries fade,
ice moves out
of the basin,
holes develop
in the array.
ICEXAIR buoys  and the annual US Naval
Oceanographic Office deployments remain key.
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Programme
ICEXAIR deployed early August 2005 
There is always room for
a (new) Participant to
fund an ICEX buoy (or
buoys)!
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Programme
Ships in the ice in August.
Many deployments from
ships this summer
NEPP – US Coast Guard Cutter Healy
http://www.odu.edu/sci/oceanography/hotrax
CGBN – Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker
Louis S. St Laurent
http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/cruise.html
Netcam 2008 UTC 25 August 2005 showing deployment
from US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, In the foreground is
the CCREL Ice Mass Balance buoy 07949. Next is the
JAMSTEC-MetOcean POPS buoy with a JAMSTEC
weather station behind that.
SMLQ – Swedish research icebreaker Oden
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Russian manned station remains in operation
SP-33, the manned Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute drifting station that was
established late summer 2004 provided synoptic weather observations into September 2005 to
GTS with header SMVB15 RUNW. Effective 4 September 2005 the station is being re-located by
the Russian icebreaker Akademik Federov. http://www.aari.nw.ru/clgmi/np33/default_en.asp
SP-33
Healy
Louis S. St. Laurent
Oden
Surface Analysis
0600 UTC
24 August
2005
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Programme
Challenges
o Encouraging agencies who put buoys on ice the Arctic Basin to share
their basic met data via GTS
o Ensuring a well positioned array of buoys providing the basics of
position, air temperature and sea level pressure is met as the science
community moves to more sophisticated buoys deployments
o Increasing the demonstrated value of IABP data to operational
forecast services and hence getting more support from operational
agencies
IABP and the International Polar Year
It is hoped that the IPY will prompt new IABP Participants and that these new
Participants will remain beyond 2007.