An Integrated System for Real-Time CTD Profiling Float Data on Basin Scales

Abstract

This award, together with those at our partner institutions (see below), initiates the U.S. component of the international Argo Project, via the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP). By 2005, Argo will deploy a global array of 3000 profiling CTD floats (Argo Science Team, 1998), plus a data system that will make all Argo data available to both operational users of real-time data and to scientific users of a high-quality data stream. The Argo array will provide unprecedented real-time views of the evolving physical state of the ocean. It will reveal the physical processes that balance the large-scale heat and freshwater budgets of the ocean and will provide a crucial dataset for initialization and assimilation in seasonal-to-decadal forecast models. Argo is a major initiative in oceanography, merging research and operational objectives to provide a uniquely valuable global dataset for climate science and other applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 05, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382970

Entities

People

  • Dean Roemmich

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Assimilation
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Climate
  • Climate Change
  • Data Centers
  • Deployment
  • Integrated Systems
  • Military Research
  • New Zealand
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Physical Oceanography
  • Quality Control
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers