NOAA P-3 Airborne/Air Expendable Bathythermograph (AXBT) Sonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/88.043

Summary
The Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph (AXBT) measures ocean temperature as
a function of depth. As part of the Hurricane Research Division's hurricane
field program, AXBT data is collected to 1) assess the upper ocean's heat
content available to approaching hurricanes, and 2) make quantitative
estimates of upper ocean rates of mixing and cooling, and heat fluxes in the
storm environment. During RAINEX, 18 AXBTs were dropped in post-Katrina warm
eddy on 9/15 from the NOAA N43RF P-3. AXBT's were also dropped on 9/22 and
9/23, 2005.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 88.043
 * doi:10.26023/D6X3-XZNG-5S0H
   https://doi.org/10.26023/D6X3-XZNG-5S0H

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Hurricane Research Division (HRD), NOAA. 2007. RAINEX: NOAA P-3 Airborne/Air
 Expendable Bathythermograph (AXBT) Sonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/D6X3-XZNG-5S0H Accessed 26 Apr
 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * RAINEX: Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/RAINEX

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft
 * Oceanography

Platforms
 * Aircraft, NOAA P-3

Instruments
 * Expendable Bathythermographs - XBT

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE

Documentation
 * AXBT.README [1 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/415893F41EE/AXBT.README

Related links
 * homepage: RAINEX Project Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/rainex
 * info: RAINEX Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/rainex/missions.html

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2005-09-15 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2005-09-23 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 26.631
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 24.334
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -92.654
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -85.54

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: Hurricane Research Division (HRD), NOAA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/486

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/88.043?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/88.043?format=isotc211