Argo is an international program that calls for the deployment of
3,000 free drifting profiling floats, distributed over the global oceans,
which will measure the temperature and salinity in the upper 2,000 m of the ocean
providing 100,000 T/S profiles and reference velocity measurements per
year. This will allow continuous monitoring of the climate
state of the ocean, with all data being relayed and made publicly available
within hours after collection.
Argo is an element of:
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS),
Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS),
Climate Variability and Predictability Experiment (CLIVAR), and
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE).
Official versions of Argo data lie on the Global Data Centers
(GODAE and
IFREMER)
and the Argo Information Centre
is the official site for information about the Argo program.
Specific objectives of the Argo Data Center are to:
- Make real-time quality controlled data available to the operational community
within 24 hours of collection. A 24 hour, 7 day a week fully automated
operation is provided.
- Achieve a higher level of quality control, including expert inspection of profiles,
applied to the data within 3 months.
- Provide continuous open access to the data after the real-time quality control.
- Perform continuous evaluation of the network to ensure that design requirements
are satisfied.
- Generate of data products to increase the usefulness of data and for
further quality assessment.
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