The first Argo floats go into the water
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Deployment of profiling floats under the Argo design began in 1999, following the Argo Steering Team's 1998 specification of a 3,000-float array on a three-degree grid between 60°S and 60°N. Before this, the temperature and salinity structure of the open ocean below the surface was known from ship sections separated by years and thousands of kilometres.
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- Deployment of profiling floats under the Argo design began in 1999, following the Argo Steering Team's 1998 specification of a 3,000-float array on a three-degree grid between 60°S and 60°N. Before this, the temperature and salinity structure of the open ocean below the surface was known from ship sections separated by years and thousands of kilometres.
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- Argo Profiling Float Array
- The first Argo floats go into the water
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- The first Argo floats go into the water
- The Argo design array is completed
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- 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.
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