ITP 76 Overview

Deployment Location: 4/11/2014, 15:07 UTC at 89° 9.7’N, 177° 35.6’E

Last Location: 3/5/2015, 23:02 UTC at 65° 39.3’ N, 29° 1.5’ W

Duration: 328 days

Distance Travelled: 5008 km

Number of profiles: 973 in 241 days

Other instruments: IMB, AOFB, SVP

ITP76 was deployed on a 1.7 m thick icefloe in the Transpolar Drift on April 11, 2014 as part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO). On the same icefloe, a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB), an US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Ice Mass Balance Buoy (IMB), and an US-IABP Surface Velocity Program (SVP) were deployed. The ITP operated on a fast sampling schedule of 4 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.