Overview . Deployment Plans
Deployment Plans 2008
Deployment Plans of the
International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)
for 2008 & for the International Polar Year
(IPY, March 2007 & March 2009, http://www.ipy.org)
The IABP and Collaborators hope to deploy over 120 buoys at over 80 different locations. The IABP is deploying more buoys than usual in order to provide a complete, well spaced array of buoys for the IPY.
A list of acronyms and other descriptions has been included at the end.
Deployments listed by date:
1.) PSC CTD Flights (March 2008, Beaufort Sea):
Contacts: Jamie Morison, Ignatius Rigor
Buoys: 3 SVP-US. (Buoy Count: 3/3/3: # This deployment / # cumulative / # independent points (not collocated))
2.) EC (March 2008, 82N 120W):
Contacts: Ed Hudson, Ignatius Rigor
Buoys: 2 Ice Beacons, 2 SVP-US (Buoy Count: 4/7/7).
Logistics: Polar Continental Shelf
3.) NPEO (March/April 2008, North Pole and area upstream):
Buoys: 1 IMB, 1 ITP, 1 O-Flux, 1 Met. Stations, 1 Radiometer, 3 SVP-US (Buoy Count: 8/15/11).
Contacts: Jamie Morison, Jim Overland, Ignatius Rigor
4.) Alert Field Projects (March/April 2008, Lincoln Sea to the pole):
AWI: 1 Ice Canister in Lincoln Sea (Contacts: Christian Haas) (Buoy Count: 1/16/12)
SAMS: 4-6 GPS Buoys in Lincoln Sea & NARES Strait (Contacts: Jeremy Wilkins, David Meldrum) (Buoy Count: 4-6/20-22/16-18)
Switch Yard: 2 SVP-B provided by USIABP & NOAA/AOML. (Buoy Count:2/22-24/18-20).
5.) DAMOCLES (April 2008, 83-87N 130W-180):
Surface Buoys: 8 AITP, 9 Ice Beacons with anemometers, 3 IMB, 1 Ice Thickness. (Buoy Count: 21/43-45/27-29)
Logistics: Twin Otter flights out of Eureka
Contacts: Jean Claude-Gascard & Cecilie Mauritzen
6.) DAMOCLES (July/August 2008, between pole and Barrow):
Surface Buoys: 2 AITP, 4 ITP, 1 IMB (Buoy Count: 7/49-51/33-35)
Logistics: Chinese ice breaker Snow Dragon (?)
7.) NABOS (Summer 2008, Laptev & East Siberian seas)
Buoys: 10 SVP-E and N SVP-US (Buoy Count: 15/64-66/48-50)
Logistics: Russian ice breaker Dranitsyn
8.) WHITE TRIDENT (August 2008)
Buoys: 7 ICEXAIR & 6 SVP-TC80 (Buoy Count: 13/77-79/61-63)
Logistics: C-130 flight provided by US Naval Oceanographic Office and National Guard
9.) AWI Polarstern cruise (Summer 2008, Eurasian Basin of Arctic Ocean)
Buoys: 2-3 POPS provided by JAMTEC; 3 ITPs? provided by AWI, DAMOCLES & WHOI; 1 ITAC; N SVP-E; 5 SVP-US (Buoy Count: 11-13/88-92/68-70)
Contacts: Ursula Schauer, Christian Haas, Takashi Kikuchi
10.) CCG Louie St. Laurent cruise (Beaufort Sea, Summer 2008)
Buoys: 4 IMB (1 CRREL, 3 UK ASBO); 4 ITP (3 UK ASBO, 1 WHOI) (Buoy Counts: 8/96-100/72-74)
Contacts: Eddie Carmack (IOS), Andrey Proshutinsky (WHOI)
11.) CCG Sir Wilfred Laurier (Summer 2008, Beaufort Sea)
Buoys: 1 SVP-EC (Buoy Counts: 1/97-101/73-75)
Contacts: Ed Hudson, Humfrey Melling
12.) CCG Amundsen (Summer 2008, McClure Strait)
Buoys: 3 Calibs (Buoy Counts: 3/100-104/77-79)
Contacts: Luc Desjardins & David Barber
13.) CCG ice breaker (Summer 2008, Lancaster Sound)
Buoys: 4 Calibs (Buoy Counts: 4/104-108/81-83)
Contact: Luc Desjardins
14.) USCG Healy cruises (Summer 2008, Beaufort & Chukchi seas)
Buoys: N SVP-US, N AXIB prototypes
Contacts: Ignatius Rigor
15.) USCG Polar Sea cruises (Summer, 2008, Beaufort & Chuckchi seas)
Buoys: N SVP-US
Contacts: Ignatius Rigor
16.) CASIMBA (Lincoln Sea)
Buoys: 1 IMB?, 3 Ice Canisters, 3 SVP, N SVP-US, N Ice Beacons (Buoy Counts: 7+/111-115 +/80-82 +)
Logistics: Twin Otter
Contact: Christian Haas
17.) SIZONET (Summer 2008, Seasonal ice zone north of Alaska)
Buoys: 2 IMB?, N SVP-US (4/115-119 +/84-86 +).
Contacts: Hajo Eicken, Don Perovich
18.) McGill University:
Buoys: 1 IMB, 1 Stress (Buoy Counts: 2/117-121 +/86-88 +).
Logistics: CCG ice breaker???
Contact: Bruno Tremblay
Buoy Types: [Sensors] and other info.
AITP: Acoustic Ice Tethered Profiler [Ocean Temperature & Salinity (TS)]
AXIB: Airborne eXpedable Ice Buoy [P, Ta]. Currently under development to be air dropped and survive freeze up. Contacts: Pablo Clemente-Colón and Ignatius Rigor
Calib: [P] built by Metocean. Primarily deployed by CIS on ice bergs.
GPS: Global Positioning System [high-resolution ice motion]
Ice Beacons: [P, Ta] built by Metocean (deployed in hole drilled into sea ice)
Ice Canisters: [P, Ta] built by Metocean (placed on sea ice)
IMB: Ice Mass Balance buoy [P, Ta, Ti, snow, ice thickness]. Contacts: Jackie Ricther-Menge, Don Perovich
ITAC:
ITP: Ice Tethered Profiler [ocean Temperature & salinity] built by WHOI. Contacts: John Toole & Andrey Proshutinsky.
O-Flux: Ocean Flux buoy built by Naval Postgraduate School. Contacts: Tim Stanton, & Bill Shaw.
POPS: Polar Ocean Profiling System [ocean temperature & salinity] built by Metocean in collaboration with JAMSTEC. Contacts: Takashi Kikuchi (JAMSTEC) and Greg Connors (Metocean).
SVP: Surface Velocity Profiler [P, Ts].
SVP-US: 10-30 SVP provided by USIABP & NOAA GDP built by Metocean or Technocean. Contacts: Ignatius Rigor.
SVP-E: 10-15 SVP provided by EUMETNET built by Metocean. Contacts: Pierre Blouch.
SVP-EC: 1 SVP with an anemometer provided by EC. Contacts: Ed Hudson, Yvonne Cook.
SVP-TC80: Air deployable SVP buoy with a thermistor chain dangling 80m down into the ocean. Contacts: Pablo Clemente-Colón and Ignatius Rigor
Acronyms and other miscellaneous info:
AWI: Alfred Wegener Institute. Contacts: Ursula Schauer, Christian Haas
CASIMBA: CAnadian Sea Ice Mass BAlance. Contact: Christian Haas
CIS: Canadian Ice Service
CTD: Measures Ocean Temperature and Salinity
DAMOCLES: Contacts: Jean-Claude Gascard, Cecilie Mauritzen
EC: Environment Canada
EUMETNET: European Meteorological Network (http:). Contact: Pierre Blouch
GDP: Global Drifter Program. Contact: Shaun Dolk, NOAA
JAMSTEC:
Metocean: Metocean Data Systems (http:www.metocean.com)
NABOS: Nansen and Amundsen Basin Observing System. Contact: Igor Polyakov
NOAA: US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
PSC: Polar Science Center (http:psc.apl.washington.edu)
SAMS: Scottish… Contacts: David Meldrum
Switch Yard: CTD field project. Contacts: Peter Schlosser, Mike Steele
Technocean: Contact: Jeff Wingenroth
USIABP: US Interagency Arctic Buoy Program managed by National Ice Center and Polar Science Center. Contacts: Ignatius Rigor & Pablo Clemente-Colón
WHOI: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution