IPY: Towards an Arctic Observing Network: An array of Ice-Tethered Profilers to sample the upper ocean water properties during the International Polar Year

提供了资金，以便在所有季节对北冰洋的水特性进行大规模采样。为了探测和监测变化，该项目使用一系列消耗性仪器记录北冰洋的变化，这些仪器将提供有关海冰漂移和北极水柱特性的实时信息。这将通过扩大正在进行的开发、测试和现场部署一套WHOI冰系系剖面仪（ITPs）来实现。ITPs是一种自主仪器，可以在所有季节以高于每日时间分辨率的方式返回海冰下上层（~800米）海洋温度和盐度的高垂直分辨率测量数据。支持在2007年建立和部署4个ITP系统，在2008年再增加4个，并在2009年之前从这些工具获取和公开提供数据。

Toole - 0631951Funds are provided to initiate massive sampling of the Arctic Ocean water properties during all seasons. In order to detect and monitor change, this project document the Arctic Ocean variability using a series of expendable instruments that will provide real time information about sea ice drift and the properties of the Arctic water column. This will be accomplished by expanding ongoing efforts to develop, test and field a set of WHOI Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITPs): autonomous instruments that return high-vertical-resolution measurements of upper (~800 m) ocean temperature and salinity beneath sea ice during all seasons at better than daily temporal resolution over a projected three-year lifetime. Support is provided to build and deploy 4 ITP systems in 2007 and an additional 4 in 2008, and to acquire and make publicly available the data from those instruments through 2009.