| Type(s) |
Ground sensors/systems
Airborne/satellite sensors
Research
Satellite mission>Technology related (non-EO)
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| Owner |
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) |
| Organisation |
AST (Argo Science Team) |
| Abstract |
Argo is an internationally coordinated partnership program directed at deploying a global autonomous array of temperature/salinity profiling floats in the oceans. By 1997, it was apparent that the existing float technology provided the capability to sample the oceans globally, and that there was a strong scientific rationale centered on climate for implementing a global array. The AST (Argo Science Team), constituted in 1998, was a joint creation of the WCRP (World Climate Research Program) which is jointly sponsored by WMO (World Meteorological Organization), ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions), and IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) of UNESCO. The Argo international ocean program is part of of the following programs: a) GCOS/GOOS (Global Climate Observing System/Global Ocean Ocean Observing System), b) CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability Experiment), and c) GODAE (Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment).
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| Cross Reference(s) |
Argo homepage
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| Discipline(s) |
Weather & climate
Oceans & coasts
General Earth observation
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Point of Contact
| Name & Address |
Dr W John Gould
Argo Project Director and Visiting Fellow
National Oceanography Centre
Southampton SO14 3ZH
United Kingdom
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| E-mail (#at# is @) |
argo#at#ucsd.edu |
Other Information
| Spatial Coverage & Location(s) |
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| Temporal Coverage |
15/01/1998
Start date of Argo project |
| Language(s) of Resource |
English
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| Original Resource Identifier |
496 |
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