ITP 92 Overview
Deployment Location: 9/12/2015, 23:30 UTC at 80° 43.2’ N, 166° 28.8’ E
Last Location: 7/30/2017, 15:37 UTC at 74° 22.9’ N, 9° 45.1’ W
Duration: 687 days
Distance Travelled: 6128 km
Number of profiles: 1857 in 161 days
Other instruments: AOFB, S-IMB, O-Buoy
ITP92 was be deployed on a 1 m thick ice floe in the Transpolar Drift on September 12, 2015 in collaboration with the Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System (NABOS) project from the Russian Research Vessel Treshnikov. On the same icefloe, a US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy , a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB), and an autonomous atmospheric chemistry buoy (O-Buoy) were also installed. The ITP includes 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.
