Why is NOAA going to 26 86 tomorrow?

[dixiebreeze]

WEATHER RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHTS
CARCAH, TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER, MIAMI, FL.
0945 AM EDT WED 26 JUL 2006
SUBJECT: TROPICAL STORM PLAN OF THE DAY (TSPOD)
VALID 27/1100Z TO 28/1100Z JUL 2006
TSPOD NUMBER.....06-057

I. ATLANTIC REQUIREMENTS
1. NEGATIVE RECONNAISSANCE REQUIREMENTS.
2. OUTLOOK FOR SUCCEEDING DAY: NEGATIVE.
3. NOAA AXBT DEPLOYMENT: 27/1200Z DEPARTURE FROM KMCF FOR AN AREA
NEAR 26.0N 086.0W.

II. PACIFIC REQUIREMENTS
1. NEGATIVE RECONNAISSANCE REQUIREMENTS.
2. SUCCEEDING DAY OUTLOOK.....NEGATIVE.

CDL

[gatorcane]

looks like that is the central GOM - maybe a joy ride. It's nice and sunny there

[wxman57]

Looks like a bathythermograph deployment flight.

.NOAA AXBT DEPLOYMENT: 27/1200Z DEPARTURE FROM KMCF FOR AN AREA
NEAR 26.0N 086.0W.

AXBT stands for Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph. They drop them to study SSTs. Probably looking at the loop current. Research flight.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/student/phillips/navoceano.htm

[gatorcane]

Looks like a bathythermograph deployment flight.

.NOAA AXBT DEPLOYMENT: 27/1200Z DEPARTURE FROM KMCF FOR AN AREA
NEAR 26.0N 086.0W.

AXBT stands for Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph. They drop them to study SSTs. Probably looking at the loop current. Research flight.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/student/phillips/navoceano.htm

I didn't know what that meant 57, thanks

[dixiebreeze]

Looks like a bathythermograph deployment flight.

.NOAA AXBT DEPLOYMENT: 27/1200Z DEPARTURE FROM KMCF FOR AN AREA
NEAR 26.0N 086.0W.

AXBT stands for Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph. They drop them to study SSTs. Probably looking at the loop current. Research flight.

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/student/phillips/navoceano.htm

Thanks, wxman57. I'm so glad you are on this forum.

[JonathanBelles]

Looks like a bathythermograph deployment flight.

a what flight?

[Bluefrog]

duh ??? a bathythermograph deployment flight ... you aint never heard of one of them ..... good grief i don't know what the hell that means either ...

j/k

[JonathanBelles]

ah shucks

[SouthFloridawx]

airborne expendable bathythermograph—(Abbreviated AXBT.) An expendable instrument that is dropped from an aircraft and used to measure the profile of temperature in the water column.
The probe consists of a thermistor in a weighted, streamlined case. It falls freely at a fixed, known rate so that the elapsed time can be converted to depth. It is connected by a thin, freely unwinding wire to a small buoy with a radio transmitter through which the data are transmitted to the aircraft, which continues its flight.

http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/gloss ... rch&def=on

[Bluefrog]

that's exactly what i meant to say ........

[brunota2003]

found this searching for it: Another device, an expendable bathythermograph (XBT) measures the sea's temperature at varying depths and indicates how SONAR waves are bent by layers of warmer and colder water.
I think they only want the SST's at different depths though...is that correct?

[Bluefrog]

no .. that's what i meant to say ........

thanks guys for telling us

[gatorcane]

found this searching for it: Another device, an expendable bathythermograph (XBT) measures the sea's temperature at varying depths and indicates how SONAR waves are bent by layers of warmer and colder water.
I think they only want the SST's at different depths though...is that correct?

how do you pronounce it?

[Bluefrog]

ohhh that was my next thing .......

[Bluefrog]

"a baby thermal quilt" ...... i think

[JonathanBelles]

bath-ie-ther-mo-graph

[windycity]

that sounds like a very cool flight. Im very curious to hear what they find at various water depths.

[Starburst]

bathythermograph deployment flight= check to see if our bath water is hot enough yet

[mtm4319]

What happens if it hits a fish?

[TampaFl]

[quote="mtm4319"]What happens if it hits a fish?[/quote



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