Jessica Mkitarian / Wednesday, July 8, 2020 / Categories: News Global Drifter Program partners with the National Data Buoy Center to support US Navy-funded Deployments For many years, the Global Drifter Program’s (GDP) drifter operations center at NOAA/AOML has partnered with the National Weather Service’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) to coordinate drifter deployments during TAO and DART operations. These deployments help the operation center maintain a distributed global array of GDP drifters for improved weather prediction and ocean monitoring. Recently, GOMO and the GDP extended this collaboration to support deployment of US Navy-purchased commercial Spotter drifters alongside GDP drifters, on the upcoming NDBC TAO/DART mooring servicing cruise of the R/V Discovery. NOAA’s GDP has benefited from Navy-sponsored drifter deployments and development opportunities, and the program is happy to help further this collaboration and expand opportunities. Most recently, an Office of Naval Research-funded cruise deployed GDP Directional Wave Spectra Drifters off Iceland, delivering critical data in real time to NOAA operational centers. Previous Article NOAA Research Celebrates World Ocean Day Exploring Ocean Data Next Article CCE-1 Moored Buoy Rescued Days After Breaking From Anchor Print 427