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NOAA works to replenish its XBT supplies
Original: Replenishing the XBTs
NOAA Ocean Exploration is restocking its supply of expendable bathythermographs (XBTs), the probes ships drop to measure ocean temperature against depth. The devices remain a low-cost backbone of long-running ocean monitoring, and keeping inventories topped up matters for climate records and cruise planning.
Why now: NOAA highlighted routine but essential ocean-observation work that underpins climate and temperature data collection.
Evidence
- Replenishing the XBTs · NOAA Ocean Exploration (.gov)
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