UpTempO


Measuring the Upper layer Temperature of the Polar Oceans

MORE BUOYS

International Arctic Buoy Program (I. Rigor, UW) oversees a variety of autonomous arctic buoys, measuring air, sea, and ice properties.

Ice-Tethered Profilers (J. Toole, WHOI) and Arctic Ocean Flux Buoys (T. Stanton, NPS) together collect a full temperature profile under sea ice, from the surface down to 5 m (AOFB) and 7 m down to 800 m (ITP). Analysis of these data provide a full view of upper ocean thermal properties in both open-ocean and ice-covered regimes.

Ice-Tethered Profilers (J. Toole, WHOI) and Arctic Ocean Flux Buoys (T. Stanton, NPS) together collect a full temperature profile under sea ice, from the surface down to 5 m (AOFB) and 7 m down to 800 m (ITP). Analysis of these data provide a full view of upper ocean thermal properties in both open-ocean and ice-covered regimes.

Ice Mass Balance Buoys (D. Perovich and C. Polashenski, Dartmouth) use, in part, thermistor strings to measure ice thickness changes over the year. They include a thermistor in the ocean to get SST.

These are hydrobuoys similar to UpTempO buoys (Mario Hoppmann and Ben Rabe, AWI), with temperature and salinity observations at discrete depths along a 100-200 m sensor string.

The WARM buoy project (Victoria Hill, ODU) is designed to measure near-surface temperature and bio-optics in the Arctic Ocean. These buoys have a string of thermistors, similar to UpTempO buoys, as well as a suite of other optical and bio-optical sensors.
ITP

AOFB

IMB

WARM