Iceland Greenland seas Project (IGP): meteorological buoy measurements

This dataset contains meteorological, sea water temperature, surface ocean currents and wave height, direction and period measurements from a Seawatch Wavescan meteorological buoy deployed in the northwest Iceland Sea for the Iceland Greenland seas Project (IGP).

This was an international project involving the UK, US a Norwegian research communities. The UK component was funded by NERC, under the Amospheric Forcing of the Iceland Sea (AFIS) project (NE/N009754/1).

The Seawatch Wavescan meteorological buoy was deployed during the first leg of the NATO Research Vessel Alliance cruise, on 21 February 2018. Its position in the northwest Iceland Sea was strategically placed adjacent to a subsurface mooring in the Eggvin Offset. The dataset contains standard meteorological variables, surface ocean currents and wave height, direction and period from the buoy. Sea water temperature measurements at 8 m depth from the co-located mooring beneath the buoy are included to replace failed sea surface temperature measurements from the buoy under the reasonable assumption that this was still within the surface ocean mixed layer in this region. Similarly, pressure measurements that failed for roughly half of the deployment are replaced by surface layer estimates from ECMWF's ERA5 reanalysis product interpolated to the position of the meteorological buoy, corroborated for the period the sensor was working. Otherwise the buoy worked well for 2.5 months, until it broke loose from its anchor and stopped recording on 6 May 2018 and was recovered soon after. Also provided in the dataset are bulk aerodynamic flux estimates generated using the COARE3.0a algorithm.

Date (Publication): 2020-09-23T15:41:45

Date (Creation): 2020-09-23T15:41:45

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/7cc70ebf9ebc46d483fb4f17a984a978

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 7cc70ebf9ebc46d483fb4f17a984a978

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Reuder, J	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kolstad, Erik	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Vage, Kjetil	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kristiansen, Jorn	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Barrell, Christopher	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Elvidge, Andrew D.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Renfrew, Ian	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Renfrew, Ian	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

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IGP
meterological
buoy
ocean currents
wave height

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atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2018-02-04T12:04:44

End date: 2018-03-19T12:49:26

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/igp/data/IGP_met_buoy_v5	DOWNLOAD

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Parent identifier: In situ observations of air-sea interaction processes from the Iceland Greenland seas Project (IGP)
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Date stamp: 2026-02-05T03:21:45

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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