Instrument: Expendable Bathythermograph - aircraft

Acronym: aXBT

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

Description

An aXBT is an Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) designed to be launched from an aircraft (often a P3 type aircraft) as opposed to a ship. The aXBT collects data in a similar fashion to an XBT, and once the probe hit the sea surface, it free falls through the water column.

Datasets (1)

Dataset Name	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Aircraft deployed XBT section from NASA P3 aircraft in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)		Expendable Bathythermograph - aircraft

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Instrument: Expendable Bathythermograph - aircraft

Acronym: aXBT

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

Description

Datasets (1)

Dataset Name	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Aircraft deployed XBT section from NASA P3 aircraft in the North Atlantic in 1989 (U.S. JGOFS NABE project)		Expendable Bathythermograph - aircraft