The Argo bibliographies have been updated! The OneArgo bibliography now includes a total of 6778 publications. The BGC Argo bibliography added 84 in 2024 and the Deep Argo bibliography added 10. As always, if your citation is missing, please email argo@ucsd.edu.
25 years of Argo observations!
NOAA recently celebrated 25 years of Argo observations with an article entitled, ‘Argo, the ‘crown jewel’ of ocean observing systems, turns 25′ and featured four scientists in this piece.
Vale Doug Webb: One of the fathers of profiling float technology
Argo would not exist without the pioneering efforts of a few key innovators in ocean autonomy. One was Doug Webb, who passed away on November 11, 2024. A brilliant ocean engineer, Doug worked across many aspects of ocean observation technology. Breck Owens notes ‘I think part of his genius was his broad interests and putting together the appropriate technology for … Read More
OneArgo Data Bytes is here
The first version of our reformatted Argo data newsletter, OneArgo Data Bytes is available online here or as a pdf here. This issue covers: 3 million profile milestone Argo float surfacing times BGC Argo data availability Deep Argo data availability
Argo reaches 3 million profiles
Congratulations Argo on this amazing accomplishment!
Call for abstracts for OP’24 symposium
The “Call for Abstracts” for the OP ’24 Symposium is now OPEN and expected to close on 31 May 2024. There is still time to pre-register and submit an abstract. Kindly find here the link for the abstract submission: OceanPredict Symposium 2024 – Call for abstracts now OPEN (mailchi.mp)
Argo bibliographies updated
All Argo bibliographies, including thesis citations have been updated. See this page to find links to all the bibliographies.
Sea-Bird Scientific float production announcement
Sea-Bird Scientific has issued an announcement regarding NAVIS float production which can be read here. They are choosing to focus on producing high qualities sensors to best support OneArgo and will be phasing out the Navis and Navis BGC floats. All current orders will be fulfilled. Please see the announcement for more details.
Argo and Deep Argo floats from UC San Diego are tracking climate change’s impact
NBC San Diego visited the Instrument Develop Group Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego to learn about the Argo floats produced there and what they measure. Dr. Sarah Purkey is interviewed and the impact of Argo’s impact on our understanding of the ocean and climate change. To view the story, click here.