xbt jan93 08jan93-07feb93 Water temperature profiles using xbt's. Corrected for bad points and interpolate to standard depths, depth (meters) temperature (degreesC) Along offshore transects xbt's used between regular 20km spaced stations on major transect lines. Probes dropped using ship's handheld Sippican launcher. Export files (*.exp) using Sippican software on the original files (*.sip). Files corrected for spikes and interpolated to standard depths. A temperature spike is interpreted as the probe hitting the bottom and values below this point are deleted. The bottom spike is not always clearly evident. Some spiky records are due to the wire hitting the ice or the ship because of wind. One point spikes are interpolated by hand. The three to four values at the surface are changed to the next deeper temperature. The modified temperature values are averaged over three adjacent depths and these averaged values are interpolated by cubic splines to standard depths. The spline fitting routine is from the book, Numerical Recipes. Obtain offshore transect temperature profiles at 10 km spacing using bops and xbt's. none antarctic, temperature, xbt ascii online lter MSDOS floppy disks ODU unix files ~lter/lterdata/93jan/xbt/evt*.dat Raymond C. Smith Cathy Lascara Cathy Lascara Cathy Lascara John Klinck 2Jan96 Lascara CM, RC Smith, D Menzies: XBT Data Collected Aboard RV Polar Duke January-February 1993. CCPO Technical Report No. 93-03, Crittenton Hall, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. 1993. SIO Reference No. 93-42 Records can be compared to the temperature profiles from BOPS. Core measurments available after two years. Citation acknowledgement: "Data from the Palmer LTER data archive were supported by Office of Polar Programs, NSF (OPP-9011927)."