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daryllmarie.bsky.social
This morning we also deployed an expendable bathythermograph (XBT) and a drifting passive acoustic monitoring buoy 🧪🦑🔊
A deck ops team deploys a PAM buoy off the back deck of a research vessel
September 17, 2026 at 4:29 PM
roguewave.bsky.social
Proud new owner of a bathythermograph!
Picture of a bathythermography, used to measure temperature in the ocean until the 1960s.
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
jeff2146.bsky.social
sonobuoys
- AN/SSQ-62 directional command activated sonobuoy system sonobuoys
- AN/SSQ-36 bathythermograph sonobuoys
- training simulators/operational machine interface assistants
- aviation maintenance weapons loading trainer
- tactical operational flight trainer
- AN/ALQ-210 electronic support
June 8, 2026 at 7:30 AM
scientifikita.bsky.social
My 40th birthday was a blast on board the #RVInvestigator #EDIEatsea voyage. I got to deploy everything possible: to start an XBT (eXpendable BathyThermograph) at around 3am
October 15, 2023 at 5:27 AM
birb.mom
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Bathythermograph - Wikipedia
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September 27, 2024 at 2:45 AM
kkats.bsky.social
Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) is a way to measure upper ocean temperature. For this deployment, we measured sea water temperature down to about 750 m depth. 🌊(video released under CC BY 4.0)
August 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
kkats.bsky.social
Physical Oceanography Field Trip 🌊 where students drop expendable bathythermograph (XBT) to measure ocean temperature and to estimate the Kuroshio transport.

海洋学実習 🌊 では投棄式水温計で実際に海洋の水温を測り、黒潮の流量を推定します。よくみるとランチャーから飛び出したセンサーが見えます。
A student dropping a temperature sensor from the deck of a ferry into the blue ocean.
September 9, 2024 at 3:55 AM
umsonst.bsky.social
Wonder how it looks like for the whole basins - here what they write on the warming in the North Atlantic (Alt text):
As a starting point for analyzing these drivers, we posit in this essay that strong multiannual and decadal trends in Atlantic Ocean temperature and salinity might contribute to these extrema through rapid warming of the ocean’s top layer, and that they could point to large-scale oceanic circulation changes. (a) Temperature and (b) salinity anomalies, averaged over the top 100 m for January–March of each year, from EN4.2.2 (Good et al. 2013) using expendable bathythermograph (XBT) corrections (Cheng et al. 2014) and mechanical bathythermograph (MBT) corrections (Gouretski and Cheng 2020). The reference period is 1955–2006. Source: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/105/3/BAMS-D-23-0209.1.xml Here what they write on the causes for the marine heatwave you see off the west coast of Africa - stratification played a role: The year 2023 shattered numerous heat records globally and regionally. We here focus on the origins of the unprecedented and persistent warm sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean. Using a combination of multiple observational datasets and climate model large ensemble outputs, we show that the 2023 North Atlantic SST event is a manifestation of anthropogenically-forced warming, exacerbated by an extreme phase of internal climate variability and associated regional surface flux anomalies. The long-term stratification increase due to anthropogenically-driven ocean warming amplified the impacts of internal variability. At current global warming level, the 2023 event is assessed as a decadal-type occurrence for SST anomalies averaged across the entire North Atlantic basin, but it is estimated as a centennial-type event for the subtropics and the eastern basin. The distinctive horseshoe-shaped regional distribution of these anomalies is crucial to consider for correct communication and risk assessment in a warming climate. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5046018/v1 Here the heat uptake signal in 2023 and where the marine heatwave had been located - its a feedback of global warming and slowly its becoming into focus - and these morons make drill, baby, drill - WTF!
February 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
beachgoods.bsky.social
In the I learn something new everyday category, www.whoi.edu/person/athel... #adventurer #allblacks #athelstanspilhaus #bathythermograph #england #explorer #inspiration #minnesota #nyu #ocean #respect #southafrica #spilhausprojection #thanks #whoi #woodsholeoceanographicinstitution
Athelstan Spilhaus: Ocean Pioneer
Athelstan Spilhaus was a WHOI oceanographer, engineer, and futurist whose impact on science stretched from the deep sea to outer space.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:38 AM
osma.fishpool.org
Oh, wow, gorgeous. I didn't know of this one. Of course it radically destroys landmasses, so it doesn't really replace what I'm looking for, but I wouldn't mind having a nice print of that, too.
@martinvermeer @tml
"The Spilhaus Projection presents the world seas and oceans as a single body of water. It was originally created by Athelstan Spilhaus, a geophysicist and oceanographer, who joined WHOI in 1936 and developed the bathythermograph to measure ocean depths and temperatures."
January 4, 2026 at 12:57 PM
birb.mom
Lol, that's exactly what Tav asked
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Bathythermograph - Wikipedia
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January 8, 2024 at 3:46 AM
ajester.bsky.social
Yesterday our digitization guru visited & I showed him the reels in which I'm most interested in the moment (35mm)

"Symmetry data?"

"No, bathymetry data, from a bathythermograph"

I was surprised he didn't know that data & then immediately checked myself b/c I have only known about it since WHOI
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
jeromeollier.bsky.social
More Than 50 Years of Successful Continuous Temperature Section Measurements by the Global Expendable Bathythermograph Network, Its Integrability, Societal Benefits, and Future - @FrontMarineSci https://ift.tt/2JOty1y
Frontiers | More Than 50 Years of Successful Continuous T...
The first eXpendable BathyThermographs (XBTs) were deploy...
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February 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
noagendamedia.bsky.social
Some of the charts I saved from back in the old QMOW days of SSBN 726. One is covered in farewell messages from my shipmates, need to frame it at some point. Still have the go-to chart storage as well, a spent tube from a SSXBT (Submarine-Launched Expendable Bathythermograph). https://t.co/O29VKF...
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January 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM