The package drifted through seawaters with three distinct subsurface temperature maxima: 1) between 0.7 and 0.95 deg before mid-November while located in the basin north of 87.25N, 2) between 0.55 and 0.7 deg until January 1, 2008, and 3) rounded around 0.5 deg C in the Lincoln Sea north of Ellsmere Island mid-winter 2008.\u00a0 Staircases were only present in the north basin to determine CTD sensor lags, which were relatively stable and extrapolated over the remainder of the series where lags could not be determined.\u00a0 The drift of the buoy was almost always less than 30 cm\/s, so instances when the profiler could not climb the wire due to seawater drag were rare.<\/p>\r\n
After mid-February, the system drifted off of the ridge and over deeper water (>500 m) north of the Ellsmere shelf in the Lincoln Sea, where the profiler resumed profiling down to as much as 515 m for several days, then mostly hovered around 400 m between profiles 510 and 580, resumed profiling again to 511 m, then hovered from profiles 615 to 642.\u00a0 The profiles taken after dragging may have been subject to more contamination as the instrument resumed and may have been profiling closer to the ocean bottom.\u00a0 While the dataset before profile 366 was nearly free of fouling, more T & S data were removed amongst the later profiles, including the last. See the Data Products tab to the left for descriptions of the three levels (I, II, III) of data processing and to access all data.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t ITP 16 Data Processing The 643 profile attempts that were recovered from the ITP were processed according to the procedures described in\u00a0ITP Updated Data Processing Procedures, but only 372 good profiles resulted.\u00a0 The processing parameters for ITP 16 are shown in the figures to the right.\u00a0 In particular, this system suffered the greatest percentage of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":1411,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"tpl-sidebar.php","meta":{"advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1422\/revisions\/3465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ITP](\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/itp16loc2_258498.jpg\" "\\"itp16loc2_258498\\"")
\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tITP Surface Buoy Status\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t![\"ITP](\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/itp16dat1_258577.jpg\" "\\"itp16dat1_258577\\"")
\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tITP profiler engineering data.\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t![\"Data\"](\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/itp16final2_258593.jpg\" "\\"itp16final2_258593\\"")
\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tTop: number of bad points removed, Middle: variance of verticle difference of temperature and salinity in step region for up-going profiles, Bottom: temperature lag.\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t![\"Data\"](\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/itp16final2_258516.jpg\" "\\"itp16final2_258516\\"")
\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tTop: conductivity lag, Middle: conductivity thermal mass amplitude correction, Bottom: conductivity thermal mass lag correction\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t![\"Data\"](\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/itp16final3_258500.jpg\" "\\"itp16final3_258500\\"")
\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\tTop: down pressure deviation correction, Middle: salinity ratio adjustment, Bottom: Number of filtered spikes.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"