Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Measurements in the Western Alboran Sea, October 1982

Abstract

USNS BARTLETT dropped 152 expendable bathythermographs (XBT) in the western Alboran Sea during 6-18 October 1982 as part of an international oceanographic research project entitled Donde Va? The XBT data were taken to obtain synoptic temperature sections across the inflowing Atlantic Jet and the Alboran Gyre, and in the Strait of Gibraltar. XBT data were also used to increase the resolution of standard hydrographic (CTD: conductivity-temperature- depth profiler) sections. A plot of temperature versus depth for each XBT drop to 200 dbar (temperatures below 200 dbar were nearly constant) is shown.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA133939

Entities

People

  • Mark T. Bergin
  • Thomas H. Kinder

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Bathythermographs
  • Data Acquisition
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Errors
  • Expendable
  • Gibraltar
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Standards
  • Stations
  • Temperature Inversion
  • Weather Stations

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Oceanography.