TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB)
The International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB) is run by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). IPAB is a self-sustaining project of the WCRP, and provides a link between institutions with Antarctic and Southern Ocean interests. IPAB was formally established, following a one year pilot phase, at a meeting in Helsinki, Finland in June 1994. IPAB aims to establish and maintain a network of drifting buoys in the Antarctic sea-ice zone, which monitor ice motion, pressure and temperature. In 1997, 16 organisations, representing 11 countries, were involved in the IPAB programme, including: Alfred Wegener Institute, Antarctic CRC, Australian Antarctic Division, British Antarctic Survey, Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, INPE -National Institute for Space Research, Institute for Marine Research and University of Helsinki, Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency, National Ice Center, National Institute of Polar Research, Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antardtide, Scott Polar Research Institute, Service Argos, South African Weather Bureau, United Kingdom Meteorological Office, and World Data Center A Glaciology. Tables of data availability, information, experiment details, literature, and data sets are available from the IPAB home page. Links are also available to databases held by other organisations, and links to Arctic and Indian Ocean buoy databases.
The data are available via several provided URLs. Further information and the data can be obtained from the IPAB home page URL. The data and documentation are also available directly from the NSIDC website. Finally, an older copy of the data are also held locally on the Australian Antarctic Data Centre's servers.
The documentation held at the NSIDC website provides important information on interpreting the dataset. A static copy of this document is included with the local copy of the dataset held on the Australian Antarctic Data Centre's servers.
Data from January 1995 to July 1998 only has been made available on the NSIDC website (and correspondingly on the AADC's servers).
The Australian subset contains data from drifting buoys that are along the ice edge or frozen into the ice. The data were observed around the Australian sector of Antarctica and recordings began in February 1985. Observations exist for around 20 buoys over this area and are not continuous over this area for this time period. Data from the period 1995-1998 only have been archived.
This work was also completed as part of ASAC projects 732, 742 and 2678.
The fields in this dataset are:
Buoy Number
Year
Time
Longitude
Latitude
ARGOS Positional Accuracy
Sea Ice Flag
Air Pressure
Air Temperature
Water Temperature
Velocity
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB)
- Date (Publication)
- 2002-04-26
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1995-01-01 1998-07-31
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE MOTION
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > PACK ICE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE
- EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS
- Keywords
-
- AIR PRESSURE
- AIR TEMPERATURE
- ARGOS POSITIONAL ACCURACY
- IPAB
- ANTARCTICA
- LATITUDE
- LONGITUDE
- SEA ICE FLAG
- TIME
- YEAR
- SOUTHERN OCEAN
- DRIFTING BUOY
- BUOY NUMBER
- WATER TEMPERATURE
- VELOCITY
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- DRIFTING BUOYS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- BUOYS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- AMD
- ARCTIC
- ACE/CRC
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- Data are stored in various international databases. Databases can be accessed via the WWW from the provided URLs. In 2002 a copy was made of the international data, which has been stored locally on the Australian Antarctic Data Centre's servers and can be accessed from there. For the most up-to-date dataset, use the link to the NSIDC dataset.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
-
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=IPAB when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2002-04-26T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 3.6
- OnLine resource
-
GET DATA > DIRECT DOWNLOAD
Dataset maintained on the NSIDC site
- OnLine resource
-
GET DATA > DIRECT DOWNLOAD
Download page for Australian Antarctic Data Centre
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
IPAB home page - data and documentation
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 732
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 742
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 2678
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Fairly complete coverage of the study area - south of 55 degrees South latitude, and includes that region of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic marginal seas within the maximum seasonal sea-ice extent. There is some bias in terms of time coverage towards the early to mid months of the year (e.g. March to August). During 1995, there were a total of 19 buoys operating in Antarctic sea ice, and reporting via the GTS, plus an additional 11 buoys deployed which provided data to the IPAB database, but not to the GTS. During 1996, a total of 21 drifting buoys operated, with all but 3 of these reporting via the GTS. During 1997, 11 new buoys were deployed, with information being reported from 20 buoys. Problems with the positioning system and northward drift out of the sea-ice zone reduced the amount of information collected. Please see the URL link for further information.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2008-04-08 - record updated by Dave Connell 2009-03-27 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct broken URL. 2012-02-07 - record updated by Dave Connell to include reference to project 2678. 2018-09-07 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2022-03-17 - record updated by Dave Connell to add info from similar record (AADC-00103), and then delete that record.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/IPAB
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- de826fee-9ba3-46dd-ac64-979bba9bc3ac
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2022-03-17T09:21:41
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
-
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/IPAB
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 1999-10-07T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2022-03-16
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
Overviews
Spatial extent
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