ITP 113 Overview
Deployment Location: 9/18/2019, 22:00 UTC at 78° 50.5’ N, 142° 2.9’ W
Last Location:
Duration: days
Distance Travelled: km
Number of profiles: 5899 in 524 days
Other instruments: WIMBO, DOT, ACB
ITP113 was deployed on a 1.2 m thick ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 18, 2019 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), a Seasonal ice mass balance buoy, a WIMBO buoy, DOT buoy and acoustic communications 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 every 2 days and SBE-37 microcats fixed at 5m and 6 m depths.
