ARE ALL FAMILIAR with the irregular profiles from modern, high resolution conductivity-temperature-depth profilers (commonly called CTDs) freely falling vertical profilers, and towed thermistor chains (Figs. In fact sufficient resolution was available back in the 1930s with the advent of the Bathythermograph (BT) (Eckart, 1948) and even earlier through the use of the thermocouple
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