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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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