Figure 14. Spaghetti plot of 1998 satellite-tracked drifters. 



IIP also drops AXBT probes to 

 determine the water temperature profile 

 down to approximately 300 meters. This 

 information is coded into the standard 



MP's AXBT Development 



1994 



1995 



1996 



1997 



I Deployed 



I Success Rate(%) 



I Data Collected 



I Failed Deployments 



Figure 15. IIP AXBT program statistics for 1994 

 through 1998. 



JJYY format and sent to METOC Halifax 

 Canada, the U. S. Navy's Fleet Numerical 

 Oceanographic and Meteorological Center 

 (FNMOC) and the Naval Oceanographic 

 Center. At FNMOC, the data are 

 processed, quality controlled and 

 redistributed via FNMOC's 

 oceanographic model products. 

 For more information on 

 FNMOC, see their web site at 

 http://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/. 

 Figure 15 shows how HP's AXBT 

 program has developed since 

 1994. The failures in 1998 were 

 from flaws in HP's AXBT receiver 

 system. In 1999, IIP awarded a 

 contract to replace the AXBT 

 receiver with a rugged, reliable 

 system to reduce AXBT failures. 



1998 



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