Argo in NY Times

NY Times calls Argo, “one of the scientific triumphs of our times” The April 2014 NY Times article covers prototype deployments of Deep Argo SOLO-II floats on a R/V Tangaroa cruise off the coast of New Zealand and how measurements from Argo floats can help to better understand and predict climate change.

BGC-Argo synthetic profiles are now being produced

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.