Expendable bathythermograph (XBT) accuracy studies
By: Dr. E.R. Anderson
Contributors: Naval Ocean Systems Center (U.S.)
Series: NOSC TR -- 550; Technical report (Naval Ocean Systems Center (U.S.)) -- 550.
Publisher: Naval Ocean Systems Center
Published: 1980
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Ocean temperature; Ocean engineering
Description: 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.
Notes: Title from cover.

"Final Report for Period May 1971 - December 1979"--Cover.

"15 June 1980."

Bibliography: p. 143.