IIP also drops AXBT probes to 

 determine the water temperature profile 

 down to approximately 300 meters. This 

 information is coded into the standard 

 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 

 redistnbuted via FNMOC's oceanographic 

 model products. For more information on 

 FNMOC, see their web site at 

 http://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/. Figure 12 

 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. 



250 



1994 



1995 



1996 



1997 



1998 



1999 



D deploy 

 D success rate 



■ data collected 

 D failed deploymerts 



Figure 12. IIP AXBT statistics for 1994 through 1999. 



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