International Arctic Buoy Program

Updated 2000-06-30

To regularly deploy buoys in the Arctic to measure atmospheric temperature and pressure at various drifting sites.

This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project

Contact information

Contact person: Ignatius Rigor
Address: Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington 1013 NE 40th St. Seattle WA 98105-6698 USA
Phone: +1-206-543-6613
Fax: +1-206-543-3521
Email: ude.notgnihsaw.lpa@rgi

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Additional information or further specification of types of data / information collected, species / tissues / organs sampled, etc.

Atmospheric pressure, temperature

Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?: yes-partly

Not specified

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?: Yes