ITP 73 Overview

Deployment Location: 9/15/2013, 10:15 UTC at 84° 26.345 N, 93° 30.484 E

Last Location: 10/13/2013, 23:00 UTC at 84° 3.2’ N, 88° 18.0’ E

Duration: 28 days

Distance Travelled: 480 km

Number of profiles: 58 in 28 days

Other instruments: none

ITP73 was deployed on a 1.2 m thick ice floe in the Transpolar Drift on September 15, 2013 in collaboration with the NABOS | IARC (uaf-iarc.org) project from the Russian Research Vessel Federov. The ITP included a dissolved oxygen sensor and operated on a standard sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.