IABP Drifting Buoy Pressure, Temperature, Position, and Interpolated Ice Velocity  View Catalog Page Entry ID
G00791
Summary
The International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) maintains a network of drifting buoys 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. An average of 25 buoys are in service at any time. The IABP drifting buoy data products described here are 12-hour interpolated pressure, temperature, position, and ice velocity grids available by year from 1979 through the present.
Drifting buoys measure atmospheric pressure, air temperature, and other geophysical quantities. These data are processed at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center, and are interpolated to produce gridded fields. Data are usually updated by May of each year, and are available online from the Polar Science Center. NSIDC catalogs the data set and provides this documentation with links to the Polar Science Center's IABP site in order to publicize and facilitate access to the data.
Several related data sets are available from the Polar Science Center's IABP site, including a CD-ROM containing IABP data and derived products from 1979 through 1999, an ocean buoy data set with temperature and salinity from drifting buoys from 1985 through 1994, GIF files graphically depicting gridded products, and a surface air temperature (SAT) data set (the IABP/POLES SAT data set) that combines data from buoys, manned drifting stations, and meteorological land stations.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 90°
S: 50°
E: 0°
W: -180°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Rigor, I. G. Compiled by Polar Science Center.
Dataset Title: IABP Drifting Buoy Pressure, Temperature, Position, and Interpolated Ice Velocity
Dataset Release Date: 2002-01-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/g00791.html
Dataset DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N53X84K7
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1979-01-19
Location Keywords
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN BEAUFORT SEA
- OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN BEAUFORT SEA
- OCEAN ATLANTIC OCEAN
- OCEAN ATLANTIC OCEAN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN GREENLAND SEA
- OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN BERING SEA
Science Keywords
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Pressure
- Atmosphere Atmospheric Temperature Air Temperature
- Cryosphere Sea Ice Sea Ice Motion Ice Velocity
- Oceans Sea Ice Sea Ice Motion Ice Drift
Ancillary Keywords
- Arctic
- Atmospheric Pressure
- Buoy Data
- Climate Change
- DAAC
- Drifting Buoys
- EOSDIS
- Floating Ice
- Global Change
- Gridded Data
- ice buoys
- ICE FLOES
- IDN_NODE GSFC/NSIDC
- NSIDC DAAC
- Sea Ice Velocity
- SI DAAC
- SNOW ICE
- Temperature
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
- Oceans
Platform
Instrument
- BAROMETERS
- DRIFTING BUOYS
- PRESSURE GAUGES
- THERMOMETERS
Project
- CGC NOAA Climate and Global Change Program
Quality
Atmospheric pressure is typically measured using barometers with errors of < 1 mb.
Air temperature is measured using a variety of instruments. The thermistors typically have measurement errors of < 0.1oC, but where these instruments are installed on the buoys necessitates some care in interpreting the data. Prior to 1991, most measurements were taken from thermistors placed inside the hull of air dropped buoys, and were used primarily to calibrate the barometers. These buoys were sometimes covered with snow during winter, and were often warmed from insulation during summer. In 1992, the IABP began deploying buoys which measured true air temperatures from shielded thermistors at 2 meters height. For a detailed discussion of the temperature measurements from buoys, see Rigor et al. 2000.
Most buoys are positioned by the Argos systems on NOAA polar orbiting satellites. The Argos system results in positions with a measurement error of < 300 m. Global Position Systems have been installed on many of the newer buoys, and can be positioned with errors of < 100 m.
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC NOAA User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Distribution Size: 45 - 3482 KB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Size: 45 - 3482 KB
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Personnel
Ignatius G. Rigor
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 206 685-2571
Fax: 1 206 543-3521
Email: igr@apl.washington.edu
Contact Address:
- University of Washington
- Polar Science Center
- Applied Physics Laboratory
- 1013 NE 40th Street
City: Seattle
Province or State: WA
Postal Code: 98105
Ignatius G. Rigor
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 206 685-2571
Fax: 1 206 543-3521
Email: igr@apl.washington.edu
Contact Address:
- University of Washington
- Polar Science Center
- Applied Physics Laboratory
- 1013 NE 40th Street
City: Seattle
Province or State: WA
Postal Code: 98105
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Roger Colony
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 206 543-6615
Email: acsys@npolar.no
Contact Address:
- ACSYS Program Office
- PO BOX 5072 Majorstua
- Middelthunsgt. 29
- Oslo N-0301 Norway
Related URL
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
International Arctic Buoy Programme and Arctic Buoy Data
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE
Sea Ice Products at NSIDC
Reference
Brown, W. P. and E. G. Kerut. 1978. Air droppable RAMS (ADRAMS) buoys. AIDJEX Bulletin. 40:21-29.
Gandin, L. S. 1965. Objective analysis of meteorological fields. Gidrometeorologicheskoe Izdatel'stvo. Leningrad, translated from Russian. Israel program for scientific translations, Jerusalem. 242 pp.
Julian, P. R. and H. J. Thiebaux. 1975. On some properties of correlation functions used in optimum interpolation schemes. Monthly Weather Review. 103:605-616.
Martin, P. C. and M. Clarke. 1978. A test of barometric pressure and temperature measurements from ADRAMS buoys. AIDJEX Bulletin. 40:61-82.
Paros, J. M. 1976. Digital pressure transducers. Measurements and Data. 56, 10(2).
Rigor, I., R. Colony, and S. Martin. 2000. Variations in Surface Air Temperature Observations in the Arctic, 1979 - 1997. Journal of Climate. 13(5): 896-914.
Thorndike, A. S. and J. Y. Cheung. 1977. AIDJEX measurements of sea ice motions 11 April 1975 to 14 May 1976. AIDJEX Bulletin. 35:1-149.
Thorndike, A. S. and R. Colony. 1980. Arctic Ocean Buoy Program Data Report 19 January 1979 - 31 December 1979. Polar Science Center, University of Washington. Seattle, Washington. 131 pp.
Thorndike, A. S. 1981. Kinematics of Sea Ice. The Geophysics of Sea Ice. Edited by N. Untersteiner. New York: Plenum Press.
Thorndike, A. S., and R. Colony, 1982. Statistical properties of the atmospheric pressure field over the Arctic Ocean, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 39, 2229-2238.
Thorndike, A. S, 1986. Kinematics of sea ice. The Geophysics of Sea Ice. Edited by N. Untersteiner. New York: Plenum Press. 489-569.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2002-01-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-03-25
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