ITP 102 Overview
Deployment Location: 10/10/2019, 23:00 UTC at 85° 7.9’ N, 135° 34.1’ E
Recovery Location: 8/7/2020, 13:00 UTC at 79° 45.5’ N, 4° 57.5’ W
Duration: 302 days
Distance Travelled: 3324 km
Number of profiles: 2144 in 114 days
Other instruments: MOSAIC L3 Cluster
ITP102 was deployed on a 0.7 m thick ice floe in the Transpolar Drift on October 10, 2019 in collaboration with the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition from the Russian Research Vessel Federov. On the same icefloe, a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB) and Seasonal ice mass balance buoy were also installed. The ITP included a second generation prototype MAVS current sensor operating on a pattern profiling schedule including 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day and SBE-37 microcat fixed at 6 m depth.
The following August 2020, ITP 102 surface package was recovered floating in the marginal ice zone of the East Greenland Current from the R/V Polarstern during the recovery leg of the MOSAiC expedition.
