AXBT
Published: March 29, 2010, 12:00 am
Updated: November 20, 2011, 1:58 pm
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C Michael Hogan
AXBT in an abbreviation for airborne expendable bathythermograph, an air–deployed, expendable, ocean temperature profiling probe.
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The AXBT consists of a temperature probe, 300 to 1000 meters of cable, a VHF transmitter and antenna, and a salt water activated battery. When the AXBT hits the ocean surface and stabilizes, the transmitter is activated and the temperature probe released. The surface transmitter telemeters the temperatures measured by the falling probe to a data gathering system on the same aircraft that released the probe.
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Steve Baum (Lead Author);C Michael Hogan (Topic Editor) "AXBT". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth March 29, 2010; Last revised Date November 20, 2011; Retrieved May 26, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/AXBT>
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AXBT in an abbreviation for airborne expendable bathythermograph, an air–deployed, expendable, ocean temperature profiling probe.
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This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to expand this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion. |
The AXBT consists of a temperature probe, 300 to 1000 meters of cable, a VHF transmitter and antenna, and a salt water activated battery. When the AXBT hits the ocean surface and stabilizes, the transmitter is activated and the temperature probe released. The surface transmitter telemeters the temperatures measured by the falling probe to a data gathering system on the same aircraft that released the probe.
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