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I. Introduction
A network of automatic data buoys to monitor synoptic-scale fields of pressure,
temperature, and ice motion throughout the Arctic Basin was recommended by the
U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1974. Based on the Academy’s
recommendation, the Arctic Ocean Buoy Programme was established by the Polar
Science Center, University of Washington, in 1978 to support the Global Weather
Experiment. Operations began in early 1979, and the program continued through
1990 under funding from various agencies. In 1991, the Arctic Ocean Buoy
Programme was succeeded by the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP),
but the basic objective remains - to establish and maintain a network of drifting
buoys in the Arctic Ocean with which to provide data needed for real-time
operations and meteorological and oceanographic research.
The IABP is funded and managed by participants of the program, including
operational and research agencies, meteorological and oceanographic institutes,
and government and nongovernmental organizations. The participants represent
nine countries and one international agency.
This report is the eighteenth in a series of data reports beginning in 1979; it
covers the period from 1 January 1998 through 31 December 1998.
II.
Deployment Schedule
Buoys that continued to operate in 1998 and their year of deployment are as
follows:
1992: 10667,10668
1995: 9360, 9361, 9363
1996: 1261, 1556, 5317, 8057, 8058, 9357, 9358, 9365, 19577, 19578,
19579, 24228, 26693, 26698, 26699
1997: 1901, 1902, 1903, 2385, 2417, 7100, 7105, 12795, 12796, 17987,
17988, 20726, 22204, 22205, 22207, 23676, 26696, 26700
Buoys deployed in 1998 are as follows:
April: 1301, 2416, 4954
May: 2159, 3981, 9372
June: 5300
July: 8356, 8357
August: 1351, 1793, 1904, 1905, 1906, 3004, 3690, 14954, 14955
September: 2388
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