International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB)

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: oceans; OCEAN CURRENTS; EARTH SCIENCE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE; OCEAN WINDS; ICE EXTENT; SEA ICE; ICE TYPES; PACK ICE; SEA ICE MOTION; AIR PRESSURE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTICA; ARGOS POSITIONAL ACCURACY; BUOY NUMBER; DRIFTING BUOY; IPAB; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; SEA ICE FLAG; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME; VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; YEAR; DRIFTING BUOYS; BUOYS; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; ARCTIC; ACE/CRC; OCEAN > CONTINENT > GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Arctic; Indian; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Alfred Wegener Institute; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; British Antarctic Survey; National Institute of Polar Research; Scott Polar Research Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/international-programme-antarctic-buoys-ipab/685269; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/IPAB; http://www.nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0084.html; https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/1327/download; http://www.ipab.aq/; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=732; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=742; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=2678; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=IPAB

Fairly complete coverage of the study area - south of 55 degrees South latitude, and includes that region of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic marginal seas within the maximum seasonal sea-ice extent. There is some bias in terms of time coverage towards the early to mid months of the year (eg. March...