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Instrument: Expendable Bathythermograph

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

An XBT is an expendable free-fall temperature probe that provides a profile of measured temperature against depth calculated from a fall-rate model. For example, two popular XBT models are the T-5 and T-7 probes from Sippican. More information is available from Lockheed Martin Sippican at URL: http://www.sippican.com/.