{"title":"The airborne expendable bathythermograph","authors":"M.H. Sessions , T.P. Barnett , W.S. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/S0011-7471(76)80021-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Airborne Expendable Bathythermograph (AXBT) system is described. Results of extensive calibrations and field tests are presented. It is shown that with proper calibration these devices are a useful oceanographic research tool with temperature accuracies of a few tenths of a degree Celsius.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11253,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts","volume":"23 8","pages":"Pages 779-782"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1976-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0011-7471(76)80021-6","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011747176800216","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Airborne Expendable Bathythermograph (AXBT) system is described. Results of extensive calibrations and field tests are presented. It is shown that with proper calibration these devices are a useful oceanographic research tool with temperature accuracies of a few tenths of a degree Celsius.