NOAA Logo National Centers for Environmental Information

formerly the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)...  more on NCEI

NOAA Satellite and Information Service

NCEI is transitioning to a new website and paths to data resources will be changing. Please contact NCEI.Info@noaa.gov with any questions of issues. See the new website at www.ncei.noaa.gov.


Application of updated corrections to original XBT data

The temperature and depth corrections for the XBT probe types T4/T6, T7/deep blue and T5 are calculated as follows.

Temperature corrections

T(corrected) = T(xbt) - thermal_bias

The values of thermal bias for T7/DB, T4/T6, and T5 are provided in table 1, table 2, and table 3 respectively.

Depth corrections

Z(corrected) = Z(xbt) * stretch_factor

The stretch values for T7/DB and T4/T6 at 1m depth interval is provided in table 4, table 5, and table 6 respectively.

The temperature and depth corrections for the XBT probe types T10 are calculated as follows.

Temperature corrections

T(corrected) = T(xbt) - thermal_bias

Depth corrections

Z(corrected) = Z(xbt) - depth_bias

Where, depth_bias = -1* (coeff1+coeff2*Z(xbt))

The values of coeff1, coeff2 and thermal_bias for T10 probe are provided in table 7.

  Last modified:    Thu, 23-Apr-2015 19:57 UTC NCEI.info@noaa.gov
 
Dept. of Commerce - NOAA - NESDIS - NCEI
* Offsite Link Notification
USA.gov - The U.S. Government's Web Portal