Ice Tethered Profiler 56 Data

Data from ITP56 deployed in April 2012


Last buoy status on 2013/5/3 230058 UTC : temperature = 3.12 °C, battery = 12.52 V

Plot of ITP Buoy Status

Last position on 2013/5/3 230058 UTC : 71.4917° N, 2.5078° W

Plot of ITP Locations

Last profile (number 1532) on 2013/5/3 1800 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 133.4384 mA, mean battery = 10.4865 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

Plot of ITP T & S Contours

The raw GPS buoy location data are available in an ASCII file: itp56rawlocs.dat

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

itp56grddata.tar.Z or itp56grddata.zip

ITP56 was deployed on a 1.5 m thick icefloe in the Transpolar Drift on April 15, 2012 at 89° 19.5 N, 1° 54.8 E as part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) . On the same icefloe, a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB), an US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Ice Mass Balance Buoy , and an US-IABP Polar Area Weather Station (PAWS) were deployed. The ITP is operating on a fast sampling schedule of 4 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.