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IMOS - Ships of Opportunity - Expendable Bathythermographs - XBT delayed mode data

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 19/11/2025

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The IMOS Ships of Opportunity Expendable Bathythermographs Sub-Facility was formerly known as the Underway Expendable Bathythermographs (XBT), a research and data collection project working within the former IMOS Ship of Opportunity Multi-Disciplinary Underway Network Sub-Facility. Five major (HRX) high-resolution XBT lines provide boundary to boundary profiling and closely spaced sampling to resolve mesoscale eddies, fronts and boundary currents. The lines are repeated 4 times per year by an on-board technician. The routes sample each major boundary current system using available commercial vessel traffic. All of the transects transmit data in real-time. The data represented by this record are presented in delayed mode. This SOOP dataset covers the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean and Pacific Oceans.

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Title IMOS - Ships of Opportunity - Expendable Bathythermographs - XBT delayed mode data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e00d99cb-1dfd-47d3-834f-b2f95dd828a5
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
info@aodn.org.au
Reference Period 04/11/2025
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS - Ships of Opportunity - Expendable Bathythermographs - XBT delayed mode data". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-ships-of-opportunity-expendable-bathythermographs-xbt-delayed-mode-data1