Argo is now creating synthetic BGC Argo profiles (named *_Sprof.nc). These will replace the M-prof files and will be compressed into NetCDF4. The documentation describing these new files can be found here.
Mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice explained by years of robotic data
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/06/10/mysterious-holes-in-antarctic-sea-ice-explained-by-years-of-robotic-data/&data=02|01||0abe19047c734dc03b9d08d6edb7d7a1|84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa|1|0|636957771184826658&sdata=FCsSOsnK2YqMKUgCRigm991YwMMy2MLEcVZGxNHG/ck=&reserved=0Revised notice of an error in pressure calibration of SBE Argo CTDs manufactured between September 2015 and June 2018
Revised_SBE_notice_pres_calib_error
2018 NOAA Administrator’s Award given to Steve Piotrowicz, Molly Baringer, Claudia Schmid and Gregory Johnson
“For outstanding success of the U.S. Argo ocean observing program, providing excellent oceanographic data, leading to a new era of global oceanography.”
Message to Argo users about an increased occurrence of salinity errors in the real time Argo data stream
Salinity_errors_Sept_2018