I’ve had a small part in getting a series of buoys ready for arctic deployment and a few have been successfully sent out already. They are very large and take met data, O3 and BrO data (looking for O3 depletions), CO2 data, and as an afterthought a simple webcam was thrown on board.
This last bit I thought several people might be interested in. The only buoy that is currently deployed (and not sitting on the ocean floor) is near the Beaufort. See a movie of the last three months of webcam images here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/15/polar-obuoy-the-movie/#more-43482plus:
You can monitor this buoy and others, once they deploy, through this interface:
A movie on the deployment:
Jeff Alberts says:
July 15, 2011 at 7:50 am
That was one of the coolest (no pun intended) things I’ve ever seen.
