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type: Concept

ARCSS/NPEO
type: Concept
definition: The North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) is a year-round, automated scientific observatory, deploying various instruments each April in order to learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate global climate. It consists of a set of unmanned scientific platforms that record oceanographic, cryospheric, and atmospheric data throughout the year. More information about the project is available at the project Web site, North Pole Environmental Observatory. Summary provided by http://www.nsidc.com/cgi-bin/get_metadata.pl?id=arcss156
in scheme: projects