ITP 121 Overview
Deployment Location: 9/20/2020, 04:20 UTC at 77° 22.3’ N, 137° 16.4’ W
Last Location:
Duration: days
Distance Travelled: km
Number of profiles: 1100 in 550 days
Other instruments: S-IMB
ITP121 was deployed on a 2.3 m ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 20, 2020 as part of the Beaufort Gyre Observing System (BGOS) during the JOIS 2020 cruise on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. On the same icefloe, a US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy 3 was also installed. The ITP is operating on a standard sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day and includes a fixed SAMI PCO2 with PAR and SBE-37 microcat with dissolved oxygen at 5 m depth.
ITP 121 and S-IMB as deployed during JOIS 2020. (Photo by Jane Eert)