Argo releases an environmental impact statement

Argo has released an environmental impact statement that discusses Argo float’s impact during their entire lifetime.  It also examines the environmental impact of alternate ways to obtain similar measurements and explores whether Argo floats should be recovered.  Read the entire environmental impact statement.

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.

7th EuroArgo Science Meeting

EuroArgo is holding the 7th EuroArgo Science Meeting on 22 – 23 October, 2019 in Athens, Greece. Abstract submission deadline:  17 June, 2019

Gregory Johnson receives 2013 Wurst Prize

Dr. Gregory C. Johnson received the Georg Wüst Prize 2013 at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 2013. This biannual prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the general field of oceanography and is sponsored by the German Society for Marine Research and Ocean Dynamics. Congratulations, Greg Johnson, on this wonderful award.

Susan Wijffels discusses Argo with the Australian Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard

The Australian Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard, has been introduced to Argo during a January 16 briefing from Argo co-Chair, CSIRO’s Susan Wijffels, during a tour of CSIRO facilities by the Australian leader. Ms Gillard ventured to the Hobart waterfront home of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research where she toured the CSIRO research vessel, Southern Surveyor, was briefed by … Read More

Dean Roemmich elected as a 2010 AGU Fellow

The American Geophysical Union has elected Dean as a 2010 Fellow. Only one in each thousand members is elected to Fellowship each year. This means that Dean has made exceptional scientific contributions and was chosen by a committee of Fellows. Look for the announcement in Eos on 9 February 2010. Congratulations, Dean, this recognition is richly deserved.

AMS awards the Sverdrup Gold Medal Award to Dean Roemmich

It was announced today (8 November 2007) by the American Meteorological Society (www.ametsoc.org) that the Sverdrup Gold Medal is awarded this year to Prof. Dean H. Roemmich. The citation reads “For major contributions to the measurement and understanding of the ocean’s role in climate, and for leading the development and implementation of the Argo profiling float array.” While we know … Read More

2nd Important notice to Argo users pressure offset errors

This is to provide an update to the earlier notice (see previous notice), with regard to progress in correcting pressure offset errors. Pressure offset errors in WHOI/FSI Argo float profiles include a subset (a) that can be corrected exactly using automated procedures and a subset (b) that requires expert examination to produce an approximate correction. Profiles in subset (a) have now … Read More