HP's iceberg drift model during the 1997 season. 

 The buoys are sinnilar in design to the World 

 Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and were 

 equipped with surface temperature sensors and 

 a drogue centered at 50 meters. The data were 

 distributed in near real time via the Global Tele- 

 communications System. Drift data from the 

 buoys are presented in the IIP 1997 Drifting Buoy 

 Atlas, which is available upon request. IIP also 

 provided weekly drifting buoy sea surface tem- 

 perature (SST) and drift histories to the Canadian 

 Meteoological and Oceanographic Centre 

 (METOC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the U.S. 

 Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography 

 Center (NLMOC) in Norfolk, Virginia for use in 

 water mass and SST analyses. 



During the 1997 season, IIP successfully 

 deployed 170 Air-deployable expendable 

 BathyThermographs (AXBTs). which measure 

 temperature with depth and transmit the data back 

 to the aircraft. Temperature data from the AXBTs 

 were sent to the METOC Halifax, NLMOC, and 

 FNMOC for use as inputs into ocean tempera- 

 ture models. 



The AXBTs are deployed as part of a co- 

 operative program between Canadian Meteoro- 

 logical Centre (CMC)/METOC,which provides the 

 probes, and IIP, which deploys the probes and 

 distributes the data. This cooperation benefits 

 both organizations. The temperature data im- 

 proves the FNMOC products which are used in 

 HP's iceberg deterioration model and are a valu- 

 able source of information for METOC's regional 

 oceanographic analysis. 



On April 15, 1997, IIP paused to remem- 

 ber the 85th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS 

 TITANIC. During an ice reconnaissance patrol, 

 two wreaths were placed near the site of the sink- 

 ing to commemorate the more than 1500 lives 

 lost. 



