Instrument: Expendable Bathythermograph

Acronym:

XBT

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» skos:broadMatch http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/132/

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/.

Datasets

Dataset Name	Brief Description
event log	scientific sampling event log
hydrodata	NEFSC oceanographic profile (hydrography) data 1977 - present; northeast US continental shelf
SEEPC XBT	XBT data from SEEPC cruises
XBT	XBT data (depth, temperature)
XBT	XBT Data
XBT_SFX_PS	SOFeX Polar Star XBT temperature profiles

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