[Seavox] A question of principle on instruments

[Lowry, Roy K.]

Dear All,

An issue is arising with a request to add a set of additional XBT entries to the SeaVoX instrument vocabulary (L22).  In most cases, this includes two entries for certain physical types of XBT (e.g. Sippican T5) with the entries differentiated by the fall-rate equation applied (Sippican or GOOS). I'm a little uneasy about this as to me it could be viewed as shoe-horning information that isn't actually instrument type into the instrument description. However, I am also aware of instruments that have multiple designations and all that's different between the variants is the firmware.

Anybody else have any views on this?

Cheers, Roy.

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