Dataset: XBT
Deployment: 61TG_3052

XBT data (depth, temperature)

Principal Investigator:

Dr Edward Abraham (New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NIWA)

Contact:

Doug Mackie (University of Otago)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Project:

Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment (SOIREE)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

15July2008

Deployment Synonyms:

SOIREE

Version Date:

2008-07-15

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/451435/data

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Description

SOIREE XBT data (depth, temperature, NO SOUND VELOCITY)
XBT data collected during the transit from New Zealand to the SOIREE site.

The *.edf files are text files, produced when the data were collected and have not had any further processing.

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report
XBT data was collected during the transit from New Zealand to the SOIREE site.
Raw .edf files text files were produced when the data were collected,

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report
BCO-DMO Processing Notes
Generated from original .EDF files provided on the Deep-Sea Research II 48 (2001) accompanying CD-Rom Perl script SOIREE_EDF2xbt.pl v.2008/07/15 used to reformat .EDF files to BCO-DMO compatible .xbt files

BCO-DMO Edits
- Parameter names modified to conform to BCO-DMO convention
- date reformatted to YYYYMMDD
- time reformatted to HHMM

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Instruments

Expendable Bathythermograph

Supplied Name: Expendable Bathy Thermograph

Supplied Description:

Sample XBT .edf header for SOIREE:

// This is an MK12 EXPORT DATA FILE (EDF)

//

Date of Launch : 02/06/99

Time of Launch : 19:38:32

Sequence # : 32

Latitude : -61.413

Longitude : 141.740

Serial # :

//

// Here are the contents of the memo fields.

//

//

// Here is some probe information for this drop

//

Probe Type : T-7

Terminal Depth : 800 m

Depth Coefficient 1 : .00216

Depth Coefficient 2 : 6.472

//

Raw Data Filename : T7$00032.RDF

//

Display Units : METRIC

//

// And here are the depth(M)/temperature(C) pairs...

//

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Expendable Bathythermograph

Acronym: XBT

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/132/

Generic Description:

An XBT is an expendable free-fall temperature probe that provides a profile of measured temperature against depth calculated from a fall-rate model. For example, two popular XBT models are the T-5 and T-7 probes from Sippican. More information is available from Lockheed Martin Sippican at URL: http://www.sippican.com/.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
date	date	YYYYMMDD	date
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees	lon
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees	lat
time	time	HHMM	time
Xseq	XBT Sequence Number	integer	no_bcodmo_term
depth_xbt	XBT depth	meters	depth
temp_xbt	XBT temperature	degrees celsius	temp

Database

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