Operation and Maintenance Manual for the XBT Data Acquisition System

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Abstract:

The expendable bathythermograph XBT device is used extensively to obtain ocean temperature profiles at selected locations. Relatively recent interest in the mixing and energy propagation mechanisms of the upper mixed layers of the ocean requires the collection of thermal data at rates and accuracies greatly exceeding the capability of commercially available XBT equipment. The purpose, then, of this development was the creation of a very flexible system that could be software programmed to collect XBT data from one to four probes falling simultaneously or in rapid succession at data rates of up to 20 samples per second per probe. The system resolution is 0.01 deg C. This manual describes the functional operation, interconnections for system set-up, calibration procedures, and library operating programs of the developed system.

Author(s):
Holland, Clifford R. ; Eckstein, Bruce E. ; Jackson, Robert C. ; Johnson, Donith A.
Author Organization(s):
NAVAL OCEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS
Descriptive Note:
Technical note
Supplementary Note:
See also Rept. no. NORDA-TN-58. DOI: 10.21236/ADA091151
Pagination:
0151

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Approved For Public Release, Document Partially Illegible
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Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited. Document Partially Illegible.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
NORDA-TN-60
Monitor Series:
NORDA
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_6.1.1_Wired Transmission; JCA_6.1.3_Switching and Routing; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_3.2_Engagement; JCA_3_Force Application; JCA_3.2.1_Kinetic Means; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_8.2_Shape; JCA_8_Building Partnerships; JCA_6.2.1_Information Sharing; JCA_6.2.2_Computing Services; JCA_8.2.5_Strengthen Global Defense Posture; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_6.2_Enterprise Services
Modernization Areas:
Microelectronics; Quantum Science and Computing
Communities of Interest:
Energy and Power Technologies
Descriptor(s):
*BATHYTHERMOGRAPH DATA, *BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS, DATA REDUCTION, DATA ACQUISITION, SEA TESTING, COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, CALIBRATION, DATA RATE, ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS, EXPENDABLE
Field(s)/Group(s):
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
Report Date:
1980 Feb 01