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other parts of the system technological developments are needed (and underway): especially 

the navigation and continual data recovery for subsurface floats. Ice anchored platforms 

provide an interesting means for obtaining the desired coordination of atmospheric, 

cryospheric and oceanic data, and an international US NSF sponsored workshop took place in 

Woods Hole 06/2004 to explore the possibility of using such platforms for multidisciplinary 

monitoring during IPY. The recommendations from this meeting will be found at 

http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/arcticgroup/projects/ipworkshop.html

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