© 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 purposes.
Data from the IABP have many uses. For example:
1. Forecasting weather and ice conditions,
2. Validation of satellites,
3. Forcing, validation and assimilation into numerical climate models, and
4. Tracking the source and fate of samples taken from the ice.
Over 1500 publications have benefited from observations from the IABP!
PSC CONTACTS
Ignatius Rigor, Coordinator of the IABP
Wendy Ermold, Data Manager of the IABP
Recent Highlights
Float Your Boat 2020!
IABP MOSAiC Project Page
