WHOI Ice Tethered Profiler #6: Arctic Ocean Temperature and Depth Profiles

1335 ocean profiles collected from September 2006 to July 2008 by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Ice Tethered Profiler (ITP) was deployed on 9/4/2006 and recorded two daily profiles between 9 and 760 meters depth at 0000 and 0600 UTC. GPS locations, buoy temperature, and battery voltage status were recorded hourly by the surface package.

Use Cases

• Analyzing daily temperature-depth structure based on the two standard burst profiles per day.
• Studying Arctic oceanographic conditions over a multi-year period based on the 2006-2008 deployment.
• Investigating tidal signal avoidance in sampling based on the description of chosen UTC times.
• Monitoring buoy operational status and location based on hourly GPS, temperature, and voltage recordings.

Strengths

• Contains 1335 individual profiles.
• Covers a defined temporal range from September 2006 to July 2008.
• Sampling schedule was designed to avoid aliasing tidal signals.

Limitations

• Last updated 2009-10-01 23:59:59.999000; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

SCIOPS via nasa_earthdata

Collection Method

Data gathered by an Ice Tethered Profiler (ITP) buoy deployed in the Arctic.

Time Range

September 2006 to July 2008

Freshness

Last updated 2009-10-01 23:59:59.999000

Geography

Arctic Ocean (specific location implied by deployment)