UK ARGO

UK Argo is part of the international Argo programme, dedicated to collecting high quality temperature and salinity data in the upper 2000 metres of the global ocean using free-drifting robotic floats... The international Argo project began in 2000 with the goal of establishing a global array of profiling robotic floats in the ocean. By October 2007 it had achieved its initial goal of 3000 operational floats. These provide around 100,000 observations of temperature and salinity throughout the ice-free deep ocean each year. Around 800 floats must be deployed each year to maintain the array.

Primary location: Liverpool United Kingdom