Real-Time XBT data assembled by US NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) and submitted 2015-01-26 - 2015-02-01 (NODC Accession 0125567)

These data represent data collected from the Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System (SEAS), a program developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide accurate meteorological and oceanographic data in real time from ships at sea through the use of satellite data transmission techniques. The system transmits data through either the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) or the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT C) satellites to NOAA for use in weather, climatological and ocean models. NOAA is actively participating in an international effort to increase the number of subsurface temperature observations in support of global oceanographic and climate studies. NOAA's Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) program, SEAS, currently supports about 80 Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS). SEAS XBT data are archived by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) on a weekly basis.

本数据集源自船载环境（数据）采集系统（Shipboard Environmental (data) Acquisition System, SEAS），该项目由美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA）开发，旨在通过卫星数据传输技术，从远洋船舶实时采集精准的气象与海洋学观测数据。该系统通过地球静止运行环境卫星（GOES）或国际海事卫星组织（INMARSAT）C频段卫星，将采集到的数据回传至NOAA，以供气象、气候学及海洋学模型研究使用。NOAA正积极参与一项国际合作计划，以扩充次表层温度观测数据规模，支撑全球海洋学与气候研究。NOAA的投弃式温深仪（XBT）项目与SEAS系统目前可为约80艘志愿观测船（VOS）提供支持。SEAS系统采集的XBT数据由国家海洋数据中心（National Oceanographic Data Center, NODC）按周完成归档存储。