© McKenzie Funk
Crew members and scientists from the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy haul a buoy across the sea ice during a deployment. In the lead, BM3 Yeckley is on bear watch, followed by SN Hafner the rescue swimmer, Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colón (pulling), and Dr. Dale Chayes steadying the sled..
Overview
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 1000 publications have benefited from observations from the IABP!
The U.S. contributions to the IABP are coordinated through the U.S. Interagency Buoy Program (USIABP), which is managed by the U.S. National/Naval Ice Center, and the Polar Science Center, and represent several U.S. agencies, including the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Naval Oceanographic Office, the Office of Naval Research, and the U.S. Coast Guard.
PSC CONTACTS
Ignatius Rigor, Coordinator of the IABP
Wendy Ermold, Data Manager of the IABP
USNIC CONTACTS
Dr. Ludovic Brucker, Chief Scientist, USNIC
LT Jacob Engel, Operations Officer, USNIC
LTJG Garner Fleming, Science Officer, USNIC
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