Ice Tethered Profiler 123 Data

Data from ITP123 deployed in October 2021

Last buoy status on 2023/3/21 184613 UTC : temperature = -15.5 °C, battery = 10.227 V

Plot of ITP Buoy Status

Last position on 2023/3/21 184613 UTC : 82.8527° N, 148.9501° W

Plot of ITP Locations

Last profile (number 1102) on 2022/7/31 1802 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 127.5427 mA, mean battery = 10.5338 V

Plot of ITP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = 32.7779, maximum = 501.0143 m

Last profile temperature: minimum = -1.7402, maximum = 0.96127 °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = 30.7239, maximum = 34.8378

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: itp123rawlocs.dat

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

itp123grddata.tar.Z or itp123grddata.zip

ITP123 was deployed in open water in the Beaufort Sea on October 28, 2021 at 73° 49.1 N, 146° 9.1 W as part of the Stratified Ocean Dynamics of the Arctic (SODA) project from the R/V Sikuliaq. The ITP is operating on a fast sampling schedule of 4 one-way profiles between 5 and 760 m depth each day.