Launching an expendable bathythermograph (XBT) from the NOAA ship McArthur. These instruments measure ocean temperature. An XBT data set is one 11 data sets in the World Ocean Database.
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Launching an expendable bathythermograph (XBT) from the NOAA ship McArthur. These instruments measure ocean temperature. An XBT data set is one 11 data sets in the World Ocean Database.