On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

Roemmich, Dean; Alford, Matthew H.; Claustre, Hervé; Johnson, Kenneth S.; King, Brian; Moum, James N.; Oke, Peter R.; Owens, W. Brechner; Pouliquen, Sylvie; Purkey, Sarah G.; Scanderbeg, Megan; Suga, Toshio; Wijffels, Susan; Zilberman, Nathalie; Bakker, Dorothée C. E.; Baringer, Molly; Belbéoch, Mathieu; Bittig, Henry C.; Boss, Emmanuel; Calil, Paulo H. R.; Carse, Fiona; Carval, Thierry; Chai, Fei; Conchubhair, D. Ó; D’Ortenzio, Fabrizio; Dall’Olmo, Giorgio; Desbruyères, Damien; Fennel, Katja; Fer, Ilker; Ferrari, Raffaele; Forget, Gaël; Freeland, Howard J.; Fujiki, Tetsuichi; Gehlen, Marion; Greenan, B. J. W.; Hallberg, Robert; Hibiya, Toshiyuki; Hosoda, Shigeki; Jayne, Steven R.; Jochum, Markus; Johnson, Gregory C.; Kang, KiRyong; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Körtzinger, Arne; Traon, Pierre‐Yves Le; Lenn, Yueng‐Djern; Maze, Guillaume; Mork, Kjell Arne; Morris, Tamaryn; Nagai, Takeyoshi; Nash, Jonathan D.; Garabato, Alberto C. Naveira; Olsen, Are; Pattabhi, Rama Rao E; Prakash, Satya; Riser, Stephen C.; Schmechtig, Catherine; Schmid, Claudia; Shroyer, E.; Sterl, Andreas; Sutton, Philip; Talley, Lynne D.; Tanhua, Toste; Thierry, Virginie; Thomalla, Sandy; Toole, John M.; Troisi, Ariel; Trull, Thomas W.; Turton, Jon; Vélez‐Belchí, P.; Walczowski, Waldemar; Wang, Haili; Wanninkhof, Rik; Waterhouse, Amy F.; Waterman, Stephanie; Watson, Andrew; Wilson, Cara; Wong, Annie P. S.; Xu, Jianping; Yasuda, Ichiro

doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00439

articleFrontiers in Marine ScienceAug 2, 2019GOLD OA

On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

DRDean Roemmich MHMatthew H. Alford HCHervé Claustre KSKenneth S. Johnson BKBrian King

Scripps Institution of Oceanography · Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche · +54 more institutions

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Abstract

The Argo Program has been implemented and sustained for almost two decades, as a global array of about 4000 profiling floats. Argo provides continuous observations of ocean temperature and salinity versus pressure, from the sea surface to 2000 dbar. The successful installation of the Argo array and its innovative data management system arose opportunistically from the combination of great scientific need and technological innovation. Through the data system, Argo provides fundamental physical observations with broad societally-valuable applications, built on the cost-efficient and robust technologies of autonomous profiling floats. Following recent advances in platform and sensor technologies, even greater…

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