Technology:Argo
Published: March 29, 2010, 12:00 am
Updated: November 20, 2011, 1:59 pm
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C Michael Hogan
Argo is a global array of 3000 free–drifting profiling floats deployed to measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 meters (m) of the seas of the world.
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This will allow the continuous monitoring of the climate state of the ocean. At full network installation, Argo provides 100,000 temperature-salintiy profiles and reference velocity measurements per year from floats distributed over the oceans at about a three degree spacing. The floats will cycle to 2000 m depth every ten days, with a planned four to five year lifetime for individual instruments. All data will be made publicly available in near real–time via the Global Telecommunications System, and in scientifically quality–controlled form within a few months.
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Steve Baum (Lead Author);C Michael Hogan (Topic Editor) "Argo". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth March 29, 2010; Last revised Date November 20, 2011; Retrieved May 18, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Argo?topic=49515>
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Argo is a global array of 3000 free–drifting profiling floats deployed to measure the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 meters (m) of the seas of the world.
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This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to expand this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion. |
This will allow the continuous monitoring of the climate state of the ocean. At full network installation, Argo provides 100,000 temperature-salintiy profiles and reference velocity measurements per year from floats distributed over the oceans at about a three degree spacing. The floats will cycle to 2000 m depth every ten days, with a planned four to five year lifetime for individual instruments. All data will be made publicly available in near real–time via the Global Telecommunications System, and in scientifically quality–controlled form within a few months.
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