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Our Research

The Ice-Ocean Environmental Buoy (IOEB) is to acquire air, ice and upper ocean observations in the Arctic pack-ice.

 

1996 IOEB deployment

LEADEX ice camp

One IOEB was deployed from the LEADEX ice camp in the spring of 1992, approximately 150 miles north of Deadhorse, Alaska.

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Technology

The basic configuration of the IOEB consists of a surface apex and 110 m of suspended mooring instrumentation.</p.

About the Ice-Ocean Environmental Buoy

The Ice-Ocean Environmental Buoy (IOEB) was developed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with support from the U.S. Office of Naval Research and by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology to acquire air, ice, and upper ocean observations in the Arctic pack-ice in the 1990s.

Technology

The basic configuration of the IOEB consists of a surface apex and 110 m of suspended mooring instrumentation.

Field Work

IOEBs have been continuously monitoring air, ice, and upper ocean data in the Arctic pack ice since 1992.

Data

IOEB Archived Data and Data processing.