Correction of Depth Bias in Upper-Ocean Temperature and Salinity Profiling Measurements from Airborne Expendable Probes

During the Dynamics of Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Experiment in 2011, airborne expendable conductivity-temperature-depth (AXCTD) probes and airborne expendable bathythermographs (AXBTs) were deployed using NOAA's WP-3D Orion aircraft over the southern tropical Indian Ocean. From initial...

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Published in:Journal of atmospheric and oceanic technology 2015-02, Vol.32 (2), p.247-255
Main Authors: Alappattu, Denny P, Wang, Qing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aircraft
Atmospherics
Bathymetry
Bathythermographs
Bias
Computer programs
Conductivity
Data processing
Error correction & detection
Marine
NOAA
Ocean temperature
Probes
Profiling
Software
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Summary:During the Dynamics of Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Experiment in 2011, airborne expendable conductivity-temperature-depth (AXCTD) probes and airborne expendable bathythermographs (AXBTs) were deployed using NOAA's WP-3D Orion aircraft over the southern tropical Indian Ocean. From initial analysis of the AXCTD data, about 95% of profiles exhibit double mixed layer structures. The presence of a mixed layer from some of these profiles were erroneous and were introduced because of the AXCTD processing software not being able to correctly identify the starting point of the probe descent. This work reveals the impact of these errors in data processing and presents an objective method to remove such erroneous data from the profiles using spectrograms from raw audio files. Reconstructed AXCTD/AXBT profiles are compared with collocated shipborne conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) and expendable bathythermograph (XBT) profiles and are found to be in good agreement.
ISSN:0739-0572
1520-0426
DOI:10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00114.1