ITP 103 Overview and Deployment
Deployment Location: 10/1/2018, 23:00 UTC at 78° 53.3’ N, 134° 52.4’ W
Last Location: 10/25/2020, 00:02 UTC at 65° 35.2’ N, 170° 59.4’ W
Duration: 755 days
Distance Travelled: 8455 km
Number of profiles: 6623 in 376 days
Other instruments: SODA Cluster 1
ITP103 was deployed on a 2.2 m thick ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on October 1, 2018 as part of the Stratified Ocean Dynamics of the Arctic (SODA) project from the USCGC Healy. On the same icefloe, a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB), and 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 microcats fixed at 5m and 6 m depths.
