Minutes of the

Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Participants of the

International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)

 

 

Hosted by
World Meteorological Organization


Geneva, Switzerland
July 7 – 9, 2004

 

 

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1.      Opening of the Meeting

 

The Fourteenth annual meeting of the Participants of the IABP opened at 13:00 on 7 July 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Chairman of the IABP, Timothy Goos (TG), called the meeting to order. David Carson, Director of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) welcomed meeting attendees, and Vladimir Ryabinin (VR) provided logistical information for the meeting.

 

There were 15 Attendees, representing 8 of the 24 Participants. The list of Attendees is shown in Attachment 1.

 

2.      Agenda Approval

 

The draft was reviewed, amended and approved (Attachment 2).

 

3.      Review Minutes and Action Items from Thirteenth Meeting

 

Participants reviewed the minutes from the Thirteenth meeting.  These minutes were approved by the attendees.

 

Action Items (Actions taken are shown in italics):

 

3.1.  IABP Executive will finalize the minutes by 31 August 2003.

 

Done. Minutes for Thirteenth meeting were finalized during this session.

 

3.2.  Coordinator will add a deployment log to the IABP web pages (see section 4.0).

 

Ongoing. We have the logs, but they have not been put on the web yet.

 

3.3.  Coordinator will contact inactive Participants regarding their participation in the IABP (see section 6.0 and 10.1).

 

Ongoing. The Arctic Centre and Scott Polar Research Institute will be removed from the list of Participants.

 

3.4.  Coordinator will ensure that all IABP data is posted on the GTS.

 

Ongoing.

 

3.5.  Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) will investigate the feasibility of participating in the DBCP QC guidelines as a center responsible for the quality control of GTS buoy data in the Arctic.

 

Ongoing. The MSC agreed to investigate their participation in the DBCP QC guidelines to assure the quality of data for the IABP buoys.

 

 

4.      Coordinator's Report

 

Ignatius Rigor reported on: 1.) the status of the buoy array, 2.) deployment plans and opportunities, and 3.) the progress of data management and publications related to the IABP.

 

The Coordinator’s  report is given in Attachment 3, and is available on the web at http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/IABP-14/Reports/Coord.ppt.

 

 

5.      Report from Data Buoy Co-operation Panel (DBCP) (E. Charpentier)

 

Etienne Charpentier (EMC) reported on the activities of the DBCP since the IABP-13 meeting. A status of global buoy programmes was presented. Details regarding current DBCP activities can be found at http://www.jcommops.org/.

 

This report is given in Attachment 4.

 

Discussion

 

The DBCP working on establishing a metadata collection scheme that can be used by the buoy operators and the action groups. The scheme facilitates the work both for the manufacturers and those in charge of the deployments. The DBCP is inviting the IABP to participate in the scheme or to work out the details of regularly submitting IABP metadata to JCOMMOPS.

 

ACTION: IR will investigate the best method for the IABP to respond to this request.

 

EC invited the IABP to consider posting IABP news on the JCOMMOPS web-site including deployment updates, opportunities etc.

 

EC reported that NOAA/NESDIS invited buoy operators and the DBCP action groups to provide information on satellite data communication requirements through a simple requirements matrix that they are invited to fill in.

 

ACTION: IR will consult with Participants to fill out the matrix regarding IABP needs and provide the results to EC.

  

6.      Status Report on Membership and Letters of Intent (I. Rigor)

 

IR reported that Zhanhai Zhang, from the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAAA) has accepted a new position. Jackie Richter-Menge has indicated that the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL) intends to become a Participant of the programme and we anticipate receiving a formal letter from them. We officially list 23 Participants from 10 different countries, and one international organization, the WCRP.

 

The list of Participants is shown in Attachment 5.

 

Discussion

 

Participants considered the list of membership and noted the Arctic deployments that agencies outside the IABP have made in the last year.  The following actions were identified as a result of the discussion:

 

1.      IR will contact the CAAA to name a new contact for the IABP.

2.      IR will contact Peter Wadhams at Scottish Association for Marine Sciences  (SAMS) to request they consider participation.

3.      IR will contact the Meteorologisches Institut, Universitaet Hamburg to see if they are interested in participating

    

  

7.      Status Reports from each Participant

 

7.1.  Alfred Wegener Institute – C. Haas

 

AWI buoys operating in 2003 and 2004 (until July 2004)

 

ID

Deployment

Lat

Lon

Disappearance

Lat

Lon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9782

04.09.03

80.11

148.99

02.02.04

83.25

142.40

Denkmanufaktur*

10120

03.09.03

79.80

129.75

27.10.03

79.89

129.44

Denkmanufaktur*

10810

050903

79.54

134.57

 

 

 

Denkmanufaktur*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9834

16.08.02

79.72

170.04

 

 

 

ICEXAir; No GPS since April 4, 2004

9357

19.08.03

78.10

169.32

24.12.03

77.09

175.33

ICEXAir

·  Denkmanufaktur is the successor of Sellmann&Kruse, http://www.denkmanufaktur.de

 

 

Figure: AWI buoys operating in 2003 and 2004 (until July 2004)

 

Contributions in 2004:

Two Denkmanufaktur* buoys to be deployed during NABOS 2004 cruise in September 2004 in the Laptev Sea. One ICEXAir to be deployed during WhiteTident 2004 (August).

 

Other developments:

We have set up an AWI buoy site at

http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Modelling/SEAICE/Buoys with full reference to IABP and IPAB, showing live data (Pos, Tair, SLP) of all our buoys operating in the Arctic and Antarctic. The site also contains a web-based graphical-interface archive of all former data since the early 1980s.

 

 

 

Figure: Example of live-data map of AWI IABP buoys operating on July 7, 2004 (from: http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Modelling/SEAICE/Buoys).

 

Figure: Example from web-based AWI buoy data base (from: http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Modelling/SEAICE/Buoys).

 

 

 

7.2.  Christian Michelsen Research – A. Hageberg

 

 

7.3.   Environment Canada – E. T. Hudson

 

This report is given as Attachment 7 and the PowerPoint presentation is available on the web at http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/IABP-14/Reports/MSC.ppt.

 

7.4.  Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of Roshydromet

 

Since 1991 Russia (FSU), represented by Roshydromet Headquarter and AARI, participates in the International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP), which is the only permanent large-scale international observation program being carried out in the Central Arctic ocean up to now.

Within the period 1995-2003 about 2-4 automatic meteorological ice drifting buoys being developed and produced annually at AARI of Roshydromet and than have been deployed in the Central Arctic Ocean. Total amount of produced buoys reached now 35. The parameters  measure by these drifting buoys are the following: air temperature, sea level atmospheric pressure and optionally direction and speed of wind at 2 m height according to the WMO recommendations. All works have been done under financial support of US Interagency Arctic Buoy Program

The data from drifting meteorological buoys are transferred in real time to Global Telecommunication System through a receiving station of ARGOS system in Toulouse and also to AARI directly by the LUT and using for operational weather forecast and for Meteorological bulletins for Safety Net users for Arctic regions 1 and 2.

In August  of 2003 AARI  have  deployed  in the Arctic Ocean 3 AARI met  buoys together with 3 AWI met buoys and 1 CRREL ice mass balance buoy along the track  of “NABOS/AWLAP – 2003” joint IARC/AARI cruise onboard Murmansk Shipping Company icebreaker “Kapitan  Dranitzyn” in the area North of Eastern Laptev  and Western East – Siberian Sea (Fig. 1). 

Only 1 AARI  drifting meteorological buoy is in   operation  at this moment.  Some buoys have been crashed by ice due to high drift dynamics and absence of multiyear ice floes in the deployment area in 2003.

No deployments of AARI met buoys are planned for 2004.  

In  late August AARI is planning to continue after 12 years break full scale research in the Central Arctic Ocean based on so called “North Pole” (NP)  drifting ice camps, counted as number 33.  Area of NP-33 deployment is located north of Novosibirskiye Islands (Fig. 2). Estimated life-time of the ice camp of NP-33 approximately 2 years. There will be several rotations of scientists and  logists because of NP-33 airstrip . Research program of NP-33 include: oceanography, meteorology, sea ice mechanics and  physics, marine biology,  satellite sensors validation, polar medicine and some more.

Establishing of NP-33 in the Central Arctic will greatly contribute to IABP Agenda.  It will allow use ice camp and runway  as a base for met and other type of drifting buoys deployment since buoys deployed by landing can be supplied with better quality and bigger number of sensors. Another positive issue is that NP-33 will provide science and operational community with full scale of standard and some optional meteorological year-round observations from Central Arctic ocean.

 

 

 

Fig.1. NABOS-2003 (AWLAP-2003) deployments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.5.  Marine Environmental Data Service – E. T. Hudson for C. Schock

 

As the Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center (RNODC) for drifting buoys, MEDS continues to capture, quality control and archive data distributed on the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) in BUOY code.

 

During the past year, June 2003 to May 2004, there were on average 28 Arctic buoys per month reporting data on the GTS producing approximately 12,000 messages per month. As well, MEDS received 17 requests for Arctic buoy data including 9 for the IABP CD that was created in 2000.  The CD contains data, products and documents that were produced under the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) between 1979 and 1999. 

 

MEDS continues to see a large amount of duplicate and semi-duplicate buoy messages being distributed over the GTS and is currently improving its duplicate software to deal more effectively with this issue. As well, enhancements to MEDS quality control of location are also being made as was requested previously. These modifications are well underway and should be completed by the fall of 2004.

 

MEDS continues to participate in the DBCP QC guidelines by sending monthly statistics on the number of erroneous positions on the buoy-qc@vendur.is distribution list.  Maps displaying buoys tracks of the previous month for the Arctic, Antarctic and the rest of the world can be seen here: http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Int/RNODC/Buoy-QC/Buoy-QC.htm.

 

Contact:

Cara Schock

Fisheries and Oceans – Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS)

12W082-200 Kent St.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

K1A 0E6

 

Phone: (613) 998-2886

Fax: (613) 993-4658

schock@meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

 

 

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