Argo’s more than 3500 floats provide 100,000 plus temperature and salinity profiles each year which create a large data set available on the Argo GDACs. As an alternative to using individual profiles from the GDACs, different groups around the world have produced various products based on Argo data. While these products include Argo data, they are not maintained by Argo itself. These products fall into the following categories:
- Gridded fields of temperature, salinity, mixed layer depth, etc.
- Velocity products
- Collections of profiles that have all been interpolated to the same pressure levels (standard depth level profiles)
- Collections of profiles that have been put through additional quality control measures
Below you will find links to the gridded products. Please click the other links above to access other Argo products or visit our operational center page to look at data from model outputs using Argo.
While each producer makes every effort to remove errors from their product, some might still exist. Therefore, users are reminded that these products are to be used cautiously. Please notify the producer if an error is discovered. Please credit the product appropriately.
If you have gridded fields or other products based on Argo data that you would like added to this page, please email argo@ucsd.edu with all the necessary data for the table.
If using one of these products in a publication, please remember to acknowledge Argo data with the following statement and the Argo DOI.
These data were collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it. (https://argo.ucsd.edu, https://www.ocean-ops.org). The Argo Program is part of the Global Ocean Observing System. “
Argo (2000). Argo float data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC). SEANOE. http://doi.org/10.17882/42182
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| Institution | Documentation & Access | Gridded field description | Data Source | Vertical resolution | Temporal coverage | Temporal resolution | Update frequency | ||
| Univ. Brest / Ifremer / CNRS (SNO Argo France/LOPS) | 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0028.1 | ISAS: Global gridded 1/2 degree NetCDF monthly fields and profile data base (2002-2020) | – Argo only – Argo plus others |
187 levels to 2000 m | 2002 – 2020 | monthly | every two years | ||
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | 10.1126/sciadv.1601545 | IAP: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF dataset including Argo and other underwater profiles |
– Argo only – Argo plus others |
41 levels to 2000 m | 1940 – 2020 | monthly | monthly | ||
| Copernicus Environment Monitoring Marine Service – Coriolis | 10.5194/os-9-1-2013 | CORA5: Global gridded 1/2 degree NetCDF dataset produced by optimal interpolation yearly | Argo plus others | 250 levels to 2000 m | 1950 – year N-2 | monthly | yearly | ||
| CSIO, MNR | 
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BOA-Argo: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF or Matlab dataset produced by the Barnes Method Includes temperature, salinity, isothermal layer depth, mixed layer depth and composed mixed layer depth |
Argo only | 58 levels to 1975 dbar | Since 2004-01-01 | monthly | yearly | ||
| CSIRO | http://www.cmar.csiro.au/cars | CARS2009: Global gridded 1/2 degree NetCDF dataset produced by LOES filter from all profile data including Argo but excluding bathythermograph. Also seasonal dynamic height and MLD. | Argo plus others | 79 levels to 5500 m | 1930 to May 2009 | Mean and seasonal sinusoids | rarely | ||
| CSIRO | http://www.cmar.csiro.au/cars | CARS2009: Global gridded 1/2 degree NetCDF dataset produced by LOES filter from only Argo. Also seasonal dynamic height and MLD. | Argo only | 66 levels to 2000 m | All Argo, updated ~3 monthly | Mean and seasonal sinusoids | rarely | ||
| U. Hamburg | 10.5194/os-14-1127-2018 data access |
WAGHC: Global gridded 1/4 degree full depth NetCDF temperature and salinity climatology produced on isobaric and isopycnal layers | Argo plus others | 65 levels to 6500 m | 1985 – 2016 | monthly | rarely | ||
| INCOIS | Documentation INCOIS Live Access Server |
Indian Ocean gridded 1 degree NetCDF Argo only dataset produced by Objective Analysis | Argo only | 19 levels to 1000 dbars | Since 2002-01-01 | monthly | monthly | ||
| IPRC | data access |
Global gridded 1 degree ASCII and NetCDF dataset produced by variational interpolation from Argo only profiles (Aviso altimetry for Absolute Dynamic Topography fields was used) |
Argo plus Aviso altimetry | 27 levels to 2000 m | Since 2005-01-01 | monthly | monthly | ||
| JAMSTEC |
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MOAA GPV: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF dataset produced by optimal interpolation from all available data including Argo. | Argo plus others | 25 levels to 2000 dbars | Since 2001-01-01 | monthly | monthly | ||
| JAMSTEC | 10.1007/s10872-010-0063-3 | MILA GPV: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF of Mixed Layer Depth with its related parameters. | Argo only | Since 2001-01-01 | 10-day and monthly averages and monthly climatology | monthly | |||
| Met Office | 10.1002/2013JC009067 | EN4: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF objective analyses produced from all types of data including Argo | Argo plus others | 42 levels to 5350 m | Including Argo since 1999-01-01 | monthly | monthly | ||
| NCEI | https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/woa18/pubwoa18.html | WOA18: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF objective analyses based on WOD18 | Argo plus others | 137 levels to 5500 m | 2005 – 2017 | monthly climatology | occasionally | ||
| NOAA | 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0836.110.1007/s10872-010-0063-3 | ERSSTv5: Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature global gridded 2 degree NetCDF and ASCII dataset | Argo plus others | Since 1854 | monthly climatology | monthly | |||
| NOAA-PMEL / University of East Anglia | 10.1002/jgrc.20122 | MIMOC: Global gridded 1/2 degree NetCDF files for isopycnal surface and mixed layer water properties and combined pressure-gridded files, produced by objective mapping including front-finding and bathymetry-following algorithms. |
Argo plus others | 81 levels to 1950 dbars | Climatological year, emphasizing data since 2007 | monthly | rarely | ||
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 10.1002/2017GL073426 | Holte MLD: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF and Matlab Mixed Layer Depth climatology | Argo only | Since 2001-01-01 | climatology of monthly mixed layer depths and properties | occasionally | |||
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.03.004
SIO website with monthly updates |
RG climatology: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF Argo only dataset produced by optimal interpolation | Argo only | 58 levels to 2000 dbars | Since 2004-01-01 | monthly | monthly | ||
| Shanghai Ocean University | 10.3390/jmse10050650 | GDCSM_Argo: Global gridded 1 degree NetCDF and Matlab Argo only dataset based on Gradient-Dependent Optimal Interpolation |
Argo only | 58 levels to 1975 dbars | 2004-2021 | monthly | semiannually | ||
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 10.1175/JPO-D-23-0225.1 | Mesoscale Ocean Circulation Atlas: MOCA2000_2020: Global gridded 0.5 degrees in longitude and 0.25 degress in latitude NetCDF dataset including twenty-year means and their standard errors for water properties, geostrophic velocities, and geopotential anomaly |
Argo plus others | 82 levels to 2000 dbars | 2000-2020 | Twenty-year mean | |||