XBT operational best practices for quality assurance

Parks, Justine; Bringas, Francis; Cowley, Rebecca; Hanstein, Craig; Krummel, Lisa; Sprintall, Janet; Cheng, Lijing; Cirano, Mauro; Cruz, Samantha; Goes, Marlos; Kizu, Shoichi; Reseghetti, Franco

doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.991760

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XBT operational best practices for quality assurance

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2022
By Parks, Justine ; Bringas, Francis ; Cowley, Rebecca ; ...

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Journal Title:

Frontiers in Marine Science
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Parks, Justine ; Bringas, Francis ; Cowley, Rebecca ; Hanstein, Craig ; Krummel, Lisa ; Sprintall, Janet ; Cheng, Lijing ; Cirano, Mauro ; Cruz, Samantha ; Goes, Marlos ; Kizu, Shoichi ; Reseghetti, Franco
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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; AOML (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies)
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Since the 1970s, eXpendable BathyThermographs (XBTs) have provided the simplest and most cost-efficient solution for rapid sampling of temperature vs. depth profiles of the upper part of the ocean along ship transects. This manual, compiled by the Ship of Opportunity Program Implementation Panel (SOOPIP) a subgroup of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Observations Coordination Group (OCG) Ship Observations Team (SOT) together with members of the XBT Science Team, aims to improve the quality assurance of XBT data by establishing best practices for field measurements and promoting their adoption by the global operational and scientific community. The measurement system components include commercially available expendable temperature probes, the launcher, the data acquisition (DAQ) hardware, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, an optional satellite transmitter, and a computer with software controls. The measurement platform can be any sea-going vessel with available space for the equipment and operator, and capable of oceanic voyages across the regions of interest. Adoption of a standard methodology in the installation and deployment of the measurement system will lead to data quality improvements with subsequent impact on the computation and understanding of changes in the near surface ocean properties (e.g., heat content), ocean circulation dynamics, and their relationship to climate variability.
Keywords:

Bathythermograph Ocean Temperature Ocean Temperature Best Practice EXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) Ocean Observation
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Front. Mar. Sci. 9:991760
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.991760
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Journal Article
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Grant no. NA20OAR4320278 ; Grant no. NA20OAR4320472
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