Ice Tethered Profiler 15 Data

Data from ITP15 deployed in September 2007

Last buoy status on 2010/8/13 230037 UTC : temperature = 7.23 °C, battery = 10.48 V

Plot of ITP Buoy Status

Last position on 2010/8/13 230038 UTC : 72.2222° N, 72.5641° W

Plot of ITP Locations

Last profile (number 1305) on 2008/11/17 1224 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 272.8667 mA, mean battery = 9.8543 V

Plot of ITP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = 184.3521, maximum = 189.6668 m

Last profile temperature: minimum = -0.68789, maximum = -0.68252 °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = 34.2287, maximum = 34.2328

Composite Plot of ITP T & S Profiles

Plot of ITP T & S Contours

The raw GPS buoy location data are available in an ASCII file: itp15rawlocs.dat

Depth averaged profiler data files (with interpolated location) are available in two formats:

itp15grddata.tar.Z or itp15grddata.zip

ITP15 was deployed on a 2.5-3.0 m thick icefloe on 11 September 2007 near 86° 39N, 177° 19 W in the Transpolar Drift from the German icebreaker "Polarstern" as part of the European Union DAMOCLES Program. The ITP is operating on a rapid sampling schedule of 3 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.