The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) International
Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB), through participating
research organizations in various countries, maintains a network
of drifting buoys in the Antarctic sea ice zone to support a
better understanding of sea ice motion, meteorology, and
oceanography. The IPAB Antarctic Drifting Buoy Data archive,
presently spanning the years 1995 to ... 1998, includes
measurements of buoy position, atmospheric pressure, air
temperature, and sea surface temperature. Data are organized by
daily and three-hour averages and the raw, instantaneous, non-
interpolated data values. Data were collected from buoys
initially deployed in three study regions: East Antarctica; the
Weddell Sea; and the Bellingshausen, Amundsen, and Ross Seas.
Data are in ASCII text format and are available by ftp. Data
updates will become available as data are processed and new
buoys are deployed.