ITP 78 Overview

Deployment Location: 3/11/2014, 22:22 UTC at 74° 21.6 N, 135° 8.3 W

Last Location: 10/11/2017, 0:00 UTC at 78° 34.1’ N, 115° 10.6’ W

Duration: 1309 days

Distance Travelled: 10,847 km

Number of profiles: 1694 in 147 days

Other instruments: MIZ-C array

ITP78 was deployed on a 1.7 m thick icefloe in the Beaufort Sea on March 11, 2014 as part of the ONR Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) program. On the same icefloe, a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB) was deployed. The ITP included a second generation prototype MAVS current sensor operating on a pattern profiling schedule including 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day and SBE-37 microcat fixed at 6 m depth.