International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) Marine Environmental ...

Attachment 3 – Coordinator’s ReportThe Coordinator reported on: 1.) the status of the buoy array, 2.) deployment plans andopportunities, and 3.) the progress of data management and publications related to theIABP.Status of the Buoy ArrayOn our last meeting, 40 buoys were reporting in the Arctic. Since then, 23 buoys ceasedtransmitting, and 32 buoys were deployed. Figure 1 shows the current map of buoys.The buoys that were deployed during the intercessional period are:• July: NIC deployed 1 CES buoy from the Odin.• August: 7 by WHITE TRIDENT (ICEX-AIRS contributed by AWI, EC, NMI,US-IABP (3), and UKMO) in August 2001• September: AWI deployed 3 L&K buoys from the Polarstern. One of thesebuoys was placed at the NPEO site where all the met. buoys had failed.PMEL deployed 9 buoys in a cluster in the Beaufort Sea from the Sir WilfridLaurier.• March: Burghard Bruemmer from the University of Hamburg deployed 12buoys in Fram Strait. These buoys are not included in the buoy count.• April: 12 buoys were deployed at the 2002 NPEO. EC deployed 1 Calib, 1EC buoy, and 2 collocated buoys from NIC (CES) and CRREL. The CRRELbuoy was designed to measure the mass balance of ice.Figure 2 shows the remaining deployment plans for the year from the Polarstern thissummer, and the WHITE TRIDENT deployments this August. The buoys that will bedeployed by WHITE TRIDENT were provided by. AWI, EC, NMI, NPI, US-IABP (3).Deployment OpportunitiesWe need 7 more buoys for the WHITE TRIDENT mission in 2003.Other deployment opportunities are provided by EC, PSC, AARI, and by ships operatingin the Arctic Ocean.Data and Publications• The IABP data have been updated through December 2001 and are available on theweb.• A few copies of the draft of the 2001 buoy report are available. A PDF of this datareport and reports dating back to 1995 are available from our web pages.• We plan to improve the navigation of the web pages this summer, and update thecontent. We plan to reproduce all the buoy reports as PDF’s, which will be madeavailable on the web. We welcome any suggestions on these web pages.25