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ARGO
ARGO Float

4: Campaigns
4: Data Products

Image of the Argo Float

Image of the Argo Float

NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory passes Antarctica's tallest peak, Mount Vinson, on Oct. 22, 2012, during a flight over the continent to measure changes in the massive ice sheet and sea ice. Credit: NASA/Michael Studinger (Photography courtesy NASA Images)

Overview

Overview

ARGO is a global network of free-drifting profiling floats that collect measurements of temperature, salinity, and other ocean parameters. ARGO floats are deployed from ships and drift at a depth of 1 km. After about 10 days, the float descends to roughly 2 km before rising back to the surface, collecting profile data during its ascent. These observations are transmitted to satellites, then to receiving stations, before the float repeats its 10-day cycle. Currently, around 3,800 ARGO floats collect approximately 13,000 data profiles each month.

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Related Campaigns & Instruments

Review the instruments operated on this platform for each of these field campaigns

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Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment

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· 0 Data Products

Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD)

Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study

Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean

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· 41 Data Products

Passive Aquatic Listener (PAL)

Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD)

EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing

Northeast Pacific Ocean, Northeast Atlantic

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· 0 Data Products

Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD)

Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment

Centered approximately 300 km offshore of San Francisco, California, USA

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· 39 Data Products

Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD)

Data Products

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Campaigns

Instruments

Formats

SPURS-2 Passive Accoustic Listener (PAL) data from ARGO float deployments during the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign10.5067/SPUR2-PALS0

CampaignsSalinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study

InstrumentsPassive Aquatic Listener

FormatsnetCDF

Argo float CTD profile data within the scope of the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign10.5067/SPUR1-ARGO0

CampaignsSalinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study

InstrumentsConductivity, Temperature, and Depth

FormatsnetCDF

SPURS-2 Argo float CTD profile data from the E. Tropical Pacific field campaign10.5067/SPUR2-ARGO0

CampaignsSalinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study

InstrumentsConductivity, Temperature, and Depth

FormatsnetCDF

S-MODE Temperature and Salinity from NAVO Floats Version 110.5067/SMODE-APEX2

CampaignsSub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment

InstrumentsConductivity, Temperature, and Depth

FormatsnetCDF