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Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) Accuracy Studies

E. R. Anderson

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Abstract : This report is an examination of the accuracy of expendable bathythermograph (XBT) system temperature profiles. It covers a suite of studies on 1961 460-m and 26 1830-m XBT profiles collected between 1971 and 1975. The samples show that many visually acceptable but actually erroneous measurements are being transmitted to the Fleet Numerical Weather Center (FNWC), which results in inaccuracies of acoustic predictions based on these measurements.

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Abstract : This report is an examination of the accuracy of expendable bathythermograph (XBT) system temperature profiles. It covers a suite of studies on 1961 460-m and 26 1830-m XBT profiles collected between 1971 and 1975. The samples show that many visually acceptable but actually erroneous measurements are being transmitted to the Fleet Numerical Weather Center (FNWC), which results in inaccuracies of acoustic predictions based on these measurements.

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Abstract : This report is an examination of the accuracy of expendable bathythermograph (XBT) system temperature profiles. It covers a suite of studies on 1961 460-m and 26 1830-m XBT profiles collected between 1971 and 1975. The samples show that many visually acceptable but actually erroneous measurements are being transmitted to the Fleet Numerical Weather Center (FNWC), which results in inaccuracies of acoustic predictions based on these measurements.

Key concepts: Bathythermograph, Suite, Environmental science, Meteorology, Geodesy, Oceanography, Geology, Geography

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