XBT science: Assessment of instrumental biases and errors

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 923-933

  Cheng, Lijing ^a   Abraham, John ^b   Goni, Gustavo ^c   Boyer, Timothy ^d   Wijffels, Susan ^e   Cowley, Rebecca ^e   Gouretski, Viktor ^f   Reseghetti, Franco ^g   Kizu, Shoichi ^h   Dong, Shenfu ^c,i   Bringas, Francis ^c   Goes, Marlos ^c,i   Houpert, Loïc ^j   Sprintall, Janet ^k   Zhu, Jiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d National Oceanographic Data Center   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^g Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)   (Italy)

^h TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^j SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ERRORS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; MOTION DESCRIPTION; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; SCIENCE WORKSHOPS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EID: 84978149761     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00031.1     Document Type: Review

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