On depth and temperature biases in bathythermograph data: Development of a new correction scheme based on analysis of a global ocean database

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 812-833

  Gouretski, Viktor ^a,b   Reseghetti, Franco ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Expendable bathythermograph; Global temperature anomaly; Hydrographic data; Mechanical bathythermograph; Temperature bias

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION SCHEMES; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; MULTIPLICATIVE FACTORS; REFERENCE TEMPERATURE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TEMPERATURE BIAS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; WATER COLUMNS; WATER TEMPERATURES; WORLD OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS;

CONDUCTIVITY; CORRECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; GLOBAL OCEAN; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 77954863374     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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