Ice Tethered Profiler 31 Data

Data from ITP31 deployed in February 2009

Last buoy status on 2010/3/8 230108 UTC : temperature = 0.37 °C, battery = 10.78 V

Plot of ITP Buoy Status

Last position on 2010/3/8 230109 UTC : 73.7293° S, 118.8739° W

Plot of ITP Locations

Last profile (number 86) on 2009/3/20 1800 UTC

Last profile mean motor current = 134.8214 mA, mean battery = 10.6762 V

Plot of ITP Profiler Engineering Data

Last profile depth: minimum = 7.8136, maximum = 760.3206 m

Last profile temperature: minimum = -1.815, maximum = 1.2035 °C

Last profile salinity: minimum = 33.2509, maximum = 34.6641

Composite Plot of ITP T & S Profiles

Plot of ITP T & S Contours

The raw GPS buoy location data are available in an ASCII file: itp31rawlocs.dat

Depth averaged profiler data files (with interpolated location) are available in two formats:

itp31grddata.tar.Z or itp31grddata.zip

ITP31 was deployed on February 6, 2009 at 74° 18.2 S, 109° 56.4 W from the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica.The ITP is operating on a typical sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.