MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S019
International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)
Discover marine observations available through International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- IABP / University of Washington APL
- Role
- Polar drifting-buoy observations
- Platforms
- Drifting ice/ocean buoys
- Observed variables
- Position; barometric pressure; surface temperature; air temperature; hull temperature/battery and other variables in Level 1
- Spatial coverage
- Arctic
- Period
- 1979-present; hourly after 2016, 3-hour archive 1979-2016
- Depth coverage
- Surface/ice interface
- QC and data mode
- Raw daily + Level 1 QC archive with position QC
- Access method
- API: /download?bid=... with start/end/ndays; or PolarWatch ERDDAP; bulk Level 1 archive
- Indexed download targets
- 3
Canonical parameters
- Sea-level / barometric pressure
air_pressure_at_sea_level - Air temperature
air_temperature - Sea-surface temperature
sea_surface_temperature
Discovery and access
Excellent polar metadata and simple per-buoy API.