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（公法111-5）资助的。whoi这个拟议项目的主要目标是在所有季节使用冰系线剖面仪（ITP）仪器和配套的仪器系统（单独提议）对气象、海冰和海洋混合层参数进行采样，继续持续采样北冰洋的水特性。这个以冰为基础的观测站监测项目对北极观测网做出了重大贡献。这里特别建议每年在整个北冰洋建立和部署6个ITP仪器系统，并获取、处理和使这些仪器的数据开放、免费并立即提供给所有感兴趣的各方，以支持科学和业务活动（就像前几年所做的那样）。每年，pi将继续定期生产经过校准和编辑的数据产品，以支持详细的科学活动，这些数据产品将在WHOI ITP网站上提供，并存档于北极合作数据和信息服务（CADIS）和其他美国国家数据档案。在这个项目的过程中，pi将努力将对美国ITP基本计划的支持转变为一个运营机构（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额外的海洋学信息。后一项工作的特别重点将是增加传感器，以监测与生物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的有机物浓度，以及目前这一代ITPs已经取样的特性。

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.