International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)
			Polar Science Center Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington
	The Participants of the IABP work together to maintain a network of drifting 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 Weather Watch (WWW) Programme. Data from the IABP have many uses. For example: 1. Research in Arctic climate and climate change, 2. Forecasting weather and ice conditions, 3. Validation of satellites, 4. Forcing, validation and assimilation into numerical climate models, and 5. Tracking the source and fate of samples taken from the ice. Over 500 publications have benefited from observations from the IABP! The PSC portion of the IABP is funded by the U.S. Interagency Buoy Program (USIABP) through the National Ice Center (NIC), which represents several U.S. agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the U.S. Coast Guard. PSC CONTACTS Ignatius Rigor, Coordinator of the IABP Mark Ortmeyer, Data Manager of the IABP NIC CONTACTS Lt. John Woods, Coordinator of the USIABP Return to PSC Homepage