Coordination and Data Management of the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)

• Main Author: Rigor, Ignatius G
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE POLAR SCIENCE CENTER
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Computer Programming and Software; Test Facilities; Equipment and Methods; *ARCTIC REGIONS; *BUOYS; *DATA MANAGEMENT; MARINE GEOPHYSICS; MOTION; PRESSURE; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; DRIFTING BUOYS; IABP(INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC BUOY PROGRAMME); SAT(SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE); SLP(SEA LEVEL PRESSURE); ICE MOTION; Arctic; Arctic Basin; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA627794; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA627794

The long-term goal is to maintain a research quality database of direct measurements and analyzed fields of surface air temperature (SAT), sea level pressure (SLP), ice motion and other geophysical quantities in the Arctic Basin using drifting buoys.