Tethered Ocean Profiler 5 Data

Data from TOP5 deployed in September 2022


Last buoy status on 2023/6/11 83033 UTC : temperature = -1.3125 °C, battery = 10.483 V

Plot of TOP Buoy Status

Last position on 2023/6/11 83033 UTC : 79.0239° N, 125.4885° W

Plot of TOP Locations

Last profile (number 3093) on 2023/6/11 233 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 56.7147 mA, mean battery = 10.1468 V

Plot of TOP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = 3.4159, maximum = 50.0601 m

Last profile temperature: minimum = -1.5731, maximum = -0.83632 °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = 29.2497, maximum = 30.5043

Composite Plot of TOP T & S Profiles

Plot of TOP T & S Contours

The raw GPS buoy location data are available in an ASCII file: top5rawlocs.dat

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

top5grddata.tar.Z or top5grddata.zip

TOP5 was deployed on an 1.7 m thick ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 25, 2022 at 79° 10.2 N, 140° 16.9 W as part of the Beaufort Gyre Observing System (BGOS) during the JOIS 2022 cruise on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. On the same icefloe, an Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP136), a US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy 3 ,and a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB47) were also installed. The TOP is operating on a standard sampling schedule of 6 two-way profiles from the surface to 200 m depth each day.