ITP 122 Overview
Deployment Location: 9/4/2021, 22:00 UTC at 79° 17.1 N, 135° 32.0 W
Last Location:
Duration: days
Distance Travelled: km
Number of profiles: 1894 in 474 days
Other instruments: AOFB, S-IMB, TOP4
ITP122 was deployed on a 1.0 m thick ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 4, 2021 as part of the Beaufort Gyre Observing System (BGOS) during the JOIS 2021 cruise on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. On the same icefloe, a prototype Tethered Ocean Profiler (TOP4), a US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy 3 ,and a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB48) were also installed. The ITP operated initially on a standard schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 5 and 760 m depth each day.
