NSF awarded a $53 million grant to five US institutions to produce 500 BGC Argo floats to be deployed world wide over the next five years. Congratulations to MBARI, UW, WHOI, Scripps and Princeton on this major award. To learn more, read the article at Science or the UC San Diego press release.
New version of OWC available on GitHub
Version 3.0.0 is available here: https://github.com/ArgoDMQC/matlab_owc/releases Notes about what is new in release 3.0.0 from Annie Wong and Cecile Cabanes: To resolve some legacy issues with the old OW variables: “scale_age” is renamed “scale_age_small”; “scale_age_large” is set to NaN for the old OW mapped profiles. “build_ptmp_xyt_cov.m” is now used in “calculate_piecewisefit.m” to compute the number of degrees of freedom (NDF) … Read More
JCOMMOPS is now OceanOPS
JCOMMOPS has been re-branded to OceanOPS, complete with a new URL: https://www.ocean-ops.org/board?t=argo Click here to see the press release. To learn more about OceanOPS, read their report card or study their five year strategy. Congratulations OceanOPS!
AST-22 will be a virtual meeting
The AST executive committee has decided to hold the AST-22 meeting in the spring of 2021 as a virtual meeting due to ongoing travel concerns related to the global pandemic.
SOCCOM Data Management Meeting 22 – 23 September and 29 September
SOCCOM will hold virtual data management team sessions as follows: Sept. 22 9 – 2 PDT (12 – 5 EDT): Float data management, Day 1 Sept. 23 9-12:30 PDT (12-3:30 EDT): Float data management, Day 2 Sept. 29 9-12 PDT (12-3 EDT): Calibration and shipboard data management The meeting is open to all. Please see the final agenda for … Read More
Argo data paper covering the first twenty years of Argo out now
This paper, led by Annie Wong, describes the Argo data stream and its quality control procedures from 1999 – 2019. The changing vertical resolution and spatial coverage is documented along with accuracies of float data as compared to high quality shipboard measurements. The paper carefully documents the main problems with the pressure and salinity sensors and includes information on pred-deployment … Read More
Arctic and Baltic Users Workshop postponed due to COVID-19
Arctic and Baltic Users Workshop hosted by the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, Poland was to take place on 23 – 25 September 2020. It is now postponed. See here for more details.
Deep SOLO covers the latest GRL edition
N. Zilberman, D. Roemmich and J. Gilson’s recent article on deep ocean circulation in the Southwest Pacific using Deep Argo data is in the latest Geophysical Research Letters and the front cover is a photo of a Deep SOLO. Zilberman, N. V., Roemmich, D. H., & Gilson, J. (2020). Deep-ocean circulation in the Southwest Pacific Ocean interior: Estimates of the … Read More
German GEOlino Journal features Argo
The German publication GEOlino published an article on Argo aimed at children. The pdf version is available here.