ITP60     Print

	Enlarge Image ITP 60 after deployment and before the team has hauled the deployment apparatus back to the Polarstern on sleds. (Daniel Scholz)

Deployment Location: 9/8/2012, 11:00 UTC at 85° 3.4’N, 122° 43.0’E

Last Location: 1/3/2014, 23:01 UTC at 66° 6.79’ N, 25° 30.41’ W  

Duration: 483 days

Distance Travelled: 6565 km

Number of profiles: 259 in 106 days

Other instruments: none

ITP 60 was deployed on a 1.5 m thick icefloe in the Transpolar Drift during the ARK-XXVII/3 cruise (TransArc) on the R/V Polarstern as a contribution to the Hybrid Arctic/Antarctic Float Observation System (HAFOS). The ITP included a dissolved oxygen sensor and full biosuite system and a fixed SAMI pCO₂ with SBE-37 microcat at 6 m depth and operated on a pattern profiling sampling schedule including one full one-way profile between 7 and 760 m depth every 1.5 days. More information on the biosuite sensor package and data handling can be found here.