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ARGO
ARGO Float

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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

The Argo floats make up a global array of nearly 4,000 free-drifting profiling buoys. They primarily provide continuous measurements of the temperature and salinity of the upper ocean (~2,000 meters), which allows us to have a better understanding of the oceans’ role in earth’s climate. Deployments of Argo floats began in 2000, and an average 800 floats are deployed each year.

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Related Campaigns & Instruments

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

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Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study

Subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean

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· 38 Data Products

Passive Acoustic Listener (PAL)

Surface Temperature and Salinity Sensor (STS Sensor)

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)

Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment

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· 0 Data Products

Temperature/Salinity Profiling Floats (Temperature/Salinity Profiling Floats)

Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment

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

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· 33 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 Acoustic Listener

FormatsnetCDF-4

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-4

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-4

S-MODE Temperature and Salinity from NAVO Floats Version 1

CampaignsSub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment

InstrumentsConductivity, Temperature, and Depth

FormatsnetCDF