| Contact |
Project Name and
Website |
Summary
|
Project
Status |
Data Information |
| S. Ackley |
Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) |
SIMBA will involve deploying ice drifters and mass balance buoys that will continue to operate for 1-2 years after deployment and also an array of under ice ARGO floats plus making insitu and satellite measurements of sea ice, ocean atmosphere and biology. |
Start Sept.-Oct 2007 |
|
| C. Haas |
IPAB - The International Programme for Antarctic Buoys |
IPAB builds upon co-operation among agencies and institutions with Antarctic and Southern Ocean interests to develop and maintain an optimum observational network for near-surface meteorological and oceanographic data within the Antarctic sea-ice zone, using drifter buoys and other appropriate data collection systems |
Ongoing |
Past IPAB bouy data available from NSIDC |
| C.
Wooding |
WOCE
Subsurface Float DAC |
Data assembly
Centre and inventory of subsurface floats launched from 1989 to
2000
|
- |
Data is freely available from the WOCE DAC |
| Various |
ARGO - Global Profiling Floats
ARGO Information
Centre
BODC Southern Ocean Argo
|
ARGO consists of
a broad-scale global array of temperature/ salinity profiling floats.
It plans to deploy a global array of about 3000 PALACE floats at a
horizontal resolution of about 3°x3°.
The Argo Southern Ocean Regional Data Centre has the responsibility to validate all float data in the Southern Ocean (south of 35°S) through rigorous scrutiny and to derive products as set out by the international Argo community.
|
Ongoing |
ARGO data can be freely downloaded from the GDACS |
