Information
Follow the links at left for more information about the instrument, the Global Drifter Program, and the drifter bibliography. To track a particular drifter, see Drifter Links.News
September 2008:
On September 11, 2008, an array of 9 drifters (5 minimets and 4 ADOS) was
deployed in front of hurricane Ike before it landed in Houston. All drifters
survived deployment and successfully transmitted their data on the Global
Telecommunications System (GTS). Blue dots and black track lines show trajectories
of drifters deployed in front of Gustav on August 31, 2008. Data available at:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/xbt.html
select "hurricane buoys" for "data set".
August 2008:
On August 31, 2008, an array of 12 drifters (6 minimets and 6 ADOS) was
deployed in front of hurricane Gustav before it landed in Louisiana. All drifters
survived deployment and successfully transmitted their data on the Global
Telecommunications System (GTS). Data available at:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/xbt.html
select "hurricane buoys" for "data set".
June 2008:
In conjunction with the US Navy and NOAA, the United States Coast Guard
Cutter (USCGC) DALLAS is performing various training sessions with West
African countries as follow-up to the African Partnership Station (APS), which
took place in the Gulf of Guinea in early 2008.
As was performed by the HSV-2 SWIFT, the USCGC DALLAS is also
deploying drifting buoys in the region as part of climate research and
forecasting. In total, the USCGC DALLAS will deploy 10 SVP type drifters, which
will help build upon the existing data set in the region.
(Click on the figure to see a larger map).
March 25, 2008:
Two new columns have been added to the"Details of All Drifters in the DAC database" (dirall.html) file, to show the ending latitude and ending longitude of each drifter in the database.January 2008:
The US Navy is presently undergoing a two-ship six month training capacity building
exercise in the Gulf of Guinea. AOML, as part of this effort, is providing
drifting buoys, training materials and a trainer for this component of the Navy
effort. This figure shows tracks of drifters deployed by the HSV 2 Swift. On each
track, the star denotes deployment position, the circle shows last transmission
position (no circle means, buoy is more than 3 days behind), and the color shows
sea surface temperatures in degrees C. (Click on the figure to see a larger map).
During March 11-14, Mr. Shaun Dolk from the Driter Operations Center will be in Ghana to
provide drifter, float and XBT training to regional researchers.
August 2007:
On August 19, 2007, an array of 12 hurricane drifters (4 minimets and 8 ADOS) was deployed in the path of category 4 hurricane Dean approaching the Yucatan Peninsula, from a C-130J "Hurricane Hunter" plane. All drifters survived deployment and successfully transmitted their data on the Global Telecomunication System (GTS). Data available at:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/xbt.html select "hurricane buoys" for "data set".
February 2007:
Drifter 36256 (Drifter # 1250 that completed the first component of the Global Observing System deployed on Sep 18, 2005, was successfully recovered on Feb 21, 2007, at Brest, France, after a 521 days journey through the Atlantic ocean. Both SST and Barometric pressure sensors were reporting good data until its recovery.
Rick Lumpkin is participating in a CLIMODE cruise, aboard the R/V Knorr (US Navy-owned ship operated by WHOI for ocean research community), deploying 30 drifters (from a total of 60 to de deployed) in the North Atlantic. Three of these drifters are part of the Adopt-a-Drifter Program (ADP), established by NOAA/OCO for teachers K-12 from US and foreign countries to provide them with tools to integrate ocean observing system data into their curriculums.
Limnology and Oceanography is hosting a Special Issue on scientific
results obtained from autonomous and Lagrangian platforms and
sensors (ALPS). All publication costs for this Special Issue will
be covered, including Free Access Publication (the entire issue will
be freely available online to maximize dissemination). We
anticipate publication of 20-25 papers in this Special Issue.
Papers are invited from all disciplines in aquatic sciences.
Interdisciplinary studies enabled by ALPS and numerical modeling
studies using ALPS are also welcome.
For more details, include abstract and submission deadlines,
see:
http://aslo.org/lo/alps.html
October 16-20, 2006:
Mayra Pazos and Rick Lumpkin (NOAA/AOML) attended the twenty-second Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) DBCP meeting in La Jolla, California. Mayra presented the results of the 2006 drifter performance ("ADB") study, while Rick presented the 2006 Global Drifter Program report and a scientific talk about drifter observations in the path of Category 5 hurricane Rita. A presentation prepared by Jessica Redman on the results of the re-evaluation of the drogue status was also presented by Bill Scuba (SIO) at the meeting.- Results of the 2006 Atlantic Data Buoy study (ADB06) (pdf).
- 2006 Global Drifter Program report (pdf).
- Drifter Observations of Hurricane Rita (pdf).
- Re-evaluation of the drogue status (pdf).