WHOI Ice Tethered Profiler #9: 1,480 Upper Ocean Temperature and Salinity Profiles

1,480 upper ocean profiles of temperature, salinity, and pressure collected by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Ice Tethered Profiler #9. The data was gathered between September 11, 2007, and July 9, 2010, and is hosted on the NASA Earthdata platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling Arctic Ocean water column structure based on temperature and salinity profiles.
• Analyzing seasonal and interannual variability in upper ocean conditions based on the three-year time series.
• Calibrating remote sensing or climate models with in-situ temperature and salinity measurements.

Strengths

• 1,480 individual ocean profiles provide a substantial observational record.
• Data collection spans nearly three years, from September 2007 to July 2010.
• Profiles include three core oceanographic variables: temperature, salinity, and pressure.

Limitations

• Last updated 2010-07-10 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

Collection Method

Collected by an Ice Tethered Profiler (ITP) instrument.

Time Range

September 11, 2007 to July我们发现 9, 2010

Freshness

Last updated 2010-07-10 23:59:59.999000

Geography

Arctic Ocean (inferred from instrument type and title).