ITP 88 Overview

Deployment Location: 9/28/2015, 23:30 UTC at 78° 34.0 N, 141° 22.1 W

Last Location: 2/6/2016, 2:04 UTC at 74° 4.3’ N, 142° 11.6’ W

Duration: 130 days

Distance Travelled: 658 km

Number of profiles: 31 in 16 days

Other instruments: S-IMB, O-Buoy

ITP88 was deployed on a 1.0 m thick ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 28, 2015 as part of the Beaufort Gyre Observing System (BGOS) during the JOIS 2015 cruise on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. On the same icefloe, a US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy 2 and an autonomous atmospheric chemistry buoy (O-Buoy) were also installed. The ITP operated on a standard sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.