Ice Tethered Profiler 128 Data

Data from ITP128 deployed in September 2021


Last buoy status on 2023/5/31 61616 UTC : temperature = 0.75 °C, battery = 10.469 V

Plot of ITP Buoy Status

Last position on 2023/5/31 61616 UTC : 85.0762° N, 33.0368° W

Plot of ITP Locations

Last profile (number 1159) on 2022/1/17 1202 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 123.2134 mA, mean battery = 10.8334 V

Plot of ITP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = 3.9697, maximum = 760.141 m

Last profile temperature: minimum = -1.6097, maximum = 0.97705 °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = 29.4193, maximum = 34.8884

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: itp128rawlocs.dat

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

itp128grddata.tar.Z or itp128grddata.zip

ITP128 was deployed on a 1.36 m thick ice floe in the Transpolar Drift on September 30, 2021 at 77° 26.5 N, 179° 54.3 E in collaboration with the Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System (NABOS) project from the Russian Research Vessel Treshnikov. On the same icefloe, a US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy 3 was also installed. The ITP is operating on a fast sampling schedule of 4 one-way profiles between 5 and 760 m depth each day.