Ice Tethered Profiler 27 Data

Data from ITP27 deployed in September 2008

Last buoy status on 2009/3/2 230037 UTC : temperature = -28.53 °C, battery = 11.06 V

Plot of ITP Buoy Status

Last position on 2009/3/2 230037 UTC : 87.6743° N, 179.7486° E

Plot of ITP Locations

Last profile (number 266) on 2009/1/20 600 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 171.8282 mA, mean battery = 10.5872 V

Plot of ITP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = 7.9156, maximum = 759.9767 m

Last profile temperature: minimum = -1.6504, maximum = 0.88491 °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = 29.6305, maximum = 34.8707

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: itp27rawlocs.dat

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

itp27grddata.tar.Z or itp27grddata.zip

ITP27 was deployed on September 9, 2008 on a 2.0 m thick ice floe in the Transpolar Drift at 81° 36.5 N, 154° 33.7 E from the Russian Research Vessel Federov. The ITP is operating on a typical sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.