This web site was created to provide easy access to eXpendable BathyThermographs (XBTs) data, XBT-derived products, and other XBT-related scientific and operational information; and to also bring together scientists to highlight the uses of XBT data including upper ocean thermal structure and variability, and ocean current transport.
This site is hosted at NOAA/AOML and contains input from the XBT Science Team members.
The 4th XBT Workshop: XBT Science and the Way Forward
The 4th XBT Workshop will bring together scientists working on XBT data to discuss recent advances in assessing XBT biases and their impact in ocean heat content studies. The main expected outcome of the meeting is to reach a consensus on recommending a unique XBT bias correction to the global XBT data set.
Ocean Sciences, 2016
A session entitled "Towards a Subsurface Ocean Climate Record and Applications that Improve Understanding of Climate Variability and Change" will be lead by Catia Domingues, Matt Palmer, Toru Suzuki and Tim Boyer at the Ocean Sciences in 2016.
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- Domingues et al. (2014). Wind forced variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa between 1993 and 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans [pdf]
- Abraham et al. (2014). Modeling and numerical simulation of the forces acting on a sphere during early-water entry. Ocean Engineering [link]
- Chu et al. (2014). An exceptional anticyclonic eddy in the South China Sea in 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans [link]
- Zhang et al. (2014). Subsurface eddies in the southern South China Sea detected from in-situ observation in October 2011. Deep Sea Research Part I [link]
- Biescas et al. (2014). Recovery of temperature, salinity, and potential density from ocean reflectivity. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans [link]