WHOI Ice Tethered Profiler #16

ITP16 was deployed from the German icebreaker Polarstern as part of the European Union DAMOCLES Program on an approximately 2 m thick ice floe. The ice tethered profiler (ITP) operated on a rapid sampling schedule of 3 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day for nearly 4 months (365 prof...

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Main Author: NSF Arctic Data Center
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Arctic Data Center 2014
Subjects:
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > WATER MASSES
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > BUOY POSITION
IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > PROFILERS/SOUNDERS > CTD > CONDUCTIVITY, TEMPERATURE, DEPTH
DRIFTING BUOY
VERTICAL PROFILE
1 METER TO 30 METERS
HOURLY TO DAILY
oceans
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Damocles
Ellesmere Island
Sverdrup Islands
Lincoln Sea
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18739/A20W2W
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Summary:ITP16 was deployed from the German icebreaker Polarstern as part of the European Union DAMOCLES Program on an approximately 2 m thick ice floe. The ice tethered profiler (ITP) operated on a rapid sampling schedule of 3 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day for nearly 4 months (365 profiles) until the mooring encountered bottom along the shallowest part of the Lomonsov Ridge north of Ellesmere Island. Afterwards the buoy was driven over the shelf, so that the profiler was largely unable to profile, except down to around 500 m for several days in February (15 profiles) and over a ten day period in mid-March (22 profiles) in the Lincoln Sea. The profiler ceased communicating on April 3, 2008 but the buoy persisted north of the Sverdrup Islands more than 2 years longer.

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