AON: Continuation of the of Ice-Tethered Profiler contribution to the Arctic Observing Network

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的（公法111-5）。Toole 0856479 WHO本拟议项目的主要目标是在所有季节使用冰系剖面仪（ITP）仪器以及配套仪器系统继续对北冰洋水的性质进行持续采样。（单独提出）对气象、海冰和海洋混合层参数进行采样。这一冰基观测站联合监测方案是对北极观测网络的重大贡献。这里特别建议每年在整个北冰洋建造和部署6个ITP仪器系统，并获取、处理这些仪器的数据，并向所有有关各方开放、免费和立即提供这些数据，以支持科学和业务活动（如前几年所做的那样）。每年定期，研究所将继续制作经过校准和编辑的数据产品，以支持详细的科学活动，这些产品将在WHOI ITP网站上提供，并在北极数据和信息合作服务（CADIS）和其他美国国家数据档案馆存档。在这个项目的过程中，PI将努力将美国ITP项目的基本支持转移到一个运营机构（理想情况下是NOAA）。与此同时，他们将继续改进ITP仪器的设计和能力，以改善长期功能并返回更多的海洋学信息。后一项工作的一个特别重点将是增加传感器，以监测与海洋地球化学有关的海洋特性，如溶解氧水平、浮游植物生物量和溶解有机物浓度，以及目前这一代ITP已经采样的特性。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Toole 0856479WHOIThe major goal of this proposed project is to continue sustained sampling of the Arctic Ocean water properties during all seasons using Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP) instruments in conjunction with companion instrument systems (proposed separately) sampling meteorological, sea ice and ocean mixed layer parameters. This combined Ice-Based Observatory monitoring program represents a major contribution to the Arctic Observing Network. It is specifically proposed here to construct and deploy 6 ITP instrument systems annually throughout the Arctic Ocean and to acquire, process and make the data from these instruments open, free and immediately available to all interested parties to support science and operational activities (as has been done in previous years). At regular intervals throughout each year the PIs will continue to produce calibrated, edited data products to support detailed science activities which will be made available on the WHOI ITP web site and archived at Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (CADIS) and other U.S. national data archives. Over the course of this project, the PIs will work to transition support of the basic U.S. ITP program to an operational agency (ideally NOAA). In parallel, they will continue to evolve the ITP instrument design and capability to both improve long-term functionality and to return additional oceanographic information. A particular focus for the latter effort will be adding sensors to monitor biogeochemically-relevant ocean properties such as dissolved oxygen levels, phytoplankton biomass, and dissolved organic matter concentrations in addition to the properties already sampled by the current generation of ITPs.