UpTempO

UpTempO 2011 #3 Louis - Deceased

Made by MetOcean Data Systems
Iridium ID # (IMEI = International Mobile Equipment Identity): 300034013707960

ocean temperature at nominal depths (m): 2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 60
ocean salinity at nominal depths (m): NA
ocean pressure depths (m): 20, 60


This is a “standard” buoy with the deepest thermistor at 60 m nominal depth. It was deployed on August 6, 2011 by Richard Krishfield (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) and Mike Dempsey (Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada) by drilling a 2.2 meter deep hole in a heavily rafted ice floe during the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project cruise on the Canadian icebreaker Louie St. Laurent. Nearby instrumentation: an Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP 54), an Ice Mass Balance Buoy, an Arctic Ocean Flux Buoy, Ice Beacons and GPS drifters.

Initial status: Unfortunately, all ocean thermistor data from this buoy were unrealiable from the start; we suspect water leakage of some kind. Position and atmospheric and ocean pressure data were good.

PHOTOS

THANKS TO: Bill Williams and Jane Eert from the Institute of Ocean Sciences (Canada) for their great assistance with the logistics of getting our buoy onto the ship, and for making time during the cruise for deploying it, and to Mike Dempsey (IOS) and Rick Krishfield (WHOI) for their work in getting this buoy onto the ice, coordinated with the other buoys and beacons nearby.

The plot below shows the path of UpTempO 2011 #3 Louis colored by month. The flag marks the buoy's last known location. Black contours show two isobaths: 28 m ("short buoy" max depth: e.g., 2011 APLIS buoy) and 60 m ("standard buoy" max depth).

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