Ice Tethered Profiler 28 Data

Data from ITP28 deployed in September 2008

Last buoy status on 2011/8/9 230000 UTC : temperature = 0 °C, battery = 10.54 V

Last position on 2010/12/15 130137 UTC : 74.6316° N, 18.7693° W

Last profile (number 217) on 2008/12/19 0 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 225.6689 mA, mean battery = 10.5224 V

Plot of ITP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = NaN, maximum = NaN m

Last profile temperature: minimum = NaN, maximum = NaN °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = NaN, maximum = NaN

Composite Plot of ITP T & S Profiles

The raw GPS buoy location data are available in an ASCII file: itp28rawlocs.dat

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

itp28grddata.tar.Z or itp28grddata.zip

ITP28 was deployed on September 1, 2008 on a 1.6 m thick ice floe in the Transpolar Drift at 81° 36.9 N, 179° 43.2 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.