There will be an interruption in telecommunications service starting around 18 October 2023 that will halt real-time transmissions from as many as 813 of the 2000+ operational US Argo floats. This interruption amounts to as much as 21% of the global Argo array going temporarily offline. Many US Argo float providing activities will also have to be curtailed or halted … Read More
SBS issues notice for some CDOM fluorometers
Sea-Bird Scientific issued a notification that some CDOM fluorometers have been reported to measure biased values. The bias has been traced back to three distinct root causes: Incorrect primary CDOM standard In situ bias Out-of-tolerance UV LED For more information, please see their notification.
Argo robots are free roaming ocean adventurers
Frontiers for Young Minds just published a fun article explaining Argo to the kid in all of us. Thanks to Blair Greenan, Annie Wong, Tammy Morris, Emily Smith and Marine Bollard for helping people of all ages understand how Argo floats work, what they can tell us and why that matters. Click here to read the article.
Argo Technicians Community of Practice meeting announcement
The University of Washington will host the Argo Technician’s Community of Practice meeting 9 – 13 September 2024. Check back here for more information.
Submit an abstract for the 8th WMO Workshop
The 8th WMO Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on Numerical Weather Prediction and Earth System Prediction will be hosted by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), at their headquarters in Norrköping, Sweden, from 27 to 30 May 2024. The workshop will be held in a hybrid mode, thus also enabling online participation. We are happy to announce that we have just started to … Read More
Save the date! AST-25 will be 18 – 22 March, 2024
The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton is hosting the 25th Argo Steering Team meeting which will be the week of 18 – 22 March 2024.
Over 6000 papers have been published using Argo data
The Argo bibliography has been updated and now includes 6053 papers. The BGC Argo Mission and Deep Argo Mission bibliographies have also been updated.
Abstract submission open for OSTST Meeting in November 2023
The Ocean Surface Topography Science Team (OSTST) Meeting is happening 7 – 11 November 2023 in Puerto Rico. For more details, click here. There will be a Splinter Session on ‘Synergies Between Argo, GRACE and Altimetry’ and abstract submission is open now until 4 September, 2023. Registration information will be coming soon, but in the meantime, please consider submitting an … Read More
AST-24 meeting report is published
The AST-24 meeting report has been finished and is available here.
Community notice about pH sensors
Sea-Bird Scientific has notified the Argo community of an elevated risk of early-life failure for pH sensors shipped after June 2022. Please see this notice directly from Sea-Bird for more information.