The Argo design array is completed

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1. Story
2. The 3,000-float target set in 1998 was reached in November 2007, eight years after deployments began, after more than a hundred floats were put in the water during October alone. From this point the ocean's temperature and salinity — and therefore its density field, which is what drives the overturning — were measured globally and continuously for the first time.
3. Knowledge
4. Thermohaline Circulation
5. Argo Profiling Float Array
6. The Argo design array is completed
7. Connections
8. Argo Profiling Float Array
9. Thermohaline Circulation
10. Thermohaline Circulation
11. The first Argo floats go into the water
12. The Argo design array is completed
13. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
14. Coastal and Equatorial Upwelling
15. Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW)
16. Southern Ocean
17. Argo Profiling Float Array
18. Wallace Broecker
19. The great ocean conveyor is drawn
20. The Argo design array is completed
21. IPCC AR6 assesses AMOC decline as very likely and collapse as unlikely this century
22. Evidence
23. Argo float deployments began in 1999 under a 1998 design of 3,000 floats on a 3° grid between 60°S and 60°N; the 3,000-float target was reached in November 2007; the array now exceeds 4,000 floats and the OneArgo design extends it to 4,700 including about 1,000 biogeochemical floats. Read via search summaries of the Argo and NOAA/AOML pages; the pages themselves are on domains blocked to this run.