ITP 98 Overview
Deployment Location: 9/29/2016, 01:24 UTC at 78° 34.2’ N, 130° 3.6’ W
Last Location: 7/12/2017, 14:01 UTC at 71° 47.0’ N, 134° 5.2’ W
Duration: 286 days
Distance Travelled: 1670 km
Number of profiles: 179 in 70 days
Other instruments: AOFB, S-IMB
ITP98 was deployed on a 0.7 m thick ice floe in the Beaufort Sea on September 29, 2016 as part of the Beaufort Gyre Observing System (BGOS) during the JOIS 2016 cruise on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. On the same icefloe, a Naval Postgraduate School Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy (AOFB 34) and a US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Seasonal Ice Mass Balance Buoy 2 were also installed. The ITP includes a dissolved oxygen sensor and is operating on a standard sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.
