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
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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
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Celebrating Dr. Steve Piotrowicz and Argo
Dr. Stephen (Steve) Piotrowicz had a tremendous impact on the Argo Program as the NOAA fund manager for the US Argo Program from 2001 until April 2018. He was deputy Director of the National Office for Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observations and helped Argo grow to a global array of almost 4000 floats. Argo data are used worldwide by researches … Read More