Development and Practical Usage of Autonomous Data Acquisition Platforms in Arctic

E. M. Bykov1, A. A. Bezgin1,2, E. G. Lunev1

1 Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia

2 Sevastopol State University, Sevastopol, Russia

Abstract

The temperature-profiling drifter for polar applications is described. The unique long-term temperature and drift trajectory data set is obtained and some features of thermal structure under the ice fields near the North Pole region are analyzed.

Keywords

drifter, temperature profile, upper ocean layer, arctic observations

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