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ITP 75 Overview

Deployment Location: 9/11/2013, 15:42 UTC at 82° 3.602 N, 111° 58.875 E

Last Location: 10/22/2015, 23:00 UTC at 72° 59.9’ N, 17° 19.2’ W

Duration: 772 days

Distance Travelled: 8991 km

Number of profiles: 323 in 114 days

Other instruments: none

ITP75 was deployed on a 1.4 m thick ice floe in the Transpolar Drift on September 11, 2013 in collaboration with the Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System (NABOS) project from the Russian Research Vessel Federov. The ITP operated on a typical sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.

 

ITP 75 surface package being fitted into the buoy just prior to finishing the deployment. Photo by Andrey Masanov
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