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