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Argo Float Data from RV Investigator voyages

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Argo is a global partnership that gathers high-quality measurements of temperature and salinity from the upper 2000 meters of the ice-free oceans, along with data on mid-depth currents. This information is collected by more than 3,000 battery-powered autonomous floats that drift at depth across most of the world’s oceans. Approximately every 10 days, each float ascends to the surface over a period of about six hours, recording temperature and salinity as it rises. Upon reaching the surface, satellites determine the float’s position and receive the transmitted data. The float then adjusts its buoyancy to return to its original depth and continues drifting until the next cycle. Each float is designed to complete around 150 such cycles.

Argo Australia contributes to this effort by maintaining an array of profiling floats that provide real-time observations of the oceans surrounding Australia. Information and data from both Argo Australia and the International Argo program are available on the Argo Australia website (see data link below). CMAR maintains an internally accessible mirror of the US Argo server data, which is updated regularly (see data link below).

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IMOS Royal Australian Navy Bureau of Meterology Global Data: Coriolis and USGODAE
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These floats were deployed on the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator. Data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence, please see link. Data are supplied 'as is' without any warranty or guarantee except as required by law to be given to you. The data may not be free of error, comprehensive, current or appropriate for your particular purpose. You accept all risk and responsibility for its use. ATTRIBUTION STATEMENT: "We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research. The dataset [Insert-dataset-name-here] downloaded on [Insert-DD-Mmm-YYYY-here] was collected on voyage [Insert-voyage-name-here] by the Marine National Facility." Acknowledgement and citations should be in all forms of publication including presentations (where the acknowledgement should be on the closing slide), journals, books, reports and related research outputs.
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ARGO Data (Temperature and Salinity profiles) are freely available without any restriction. Please support ARGO by acknowledging your use of ARGO data with the following words: "These data were collected and made freely available by the International ARGO project and the national initiatives that contribute to it. (http://www.argo.net). ARGO is a pilot programme of the Global Ocean Observing System."

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ARGO Australia | Broad-Scale Global Array of Temperature/Salinity Profiling Floats | CTD | CTDs (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers) | Drifting Data Buoys | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Buoy Position | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Mixed Layer | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Thermohaline Circulation | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Water Masses | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Thermocline | Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature | Earth Science | Oceans | Salinity/Density | Salinity | Gear Trials: IN2015_E01 | Gear Trials: IN2016_E02 | Global / Oceans | World | Global / Oceans | World Ocean | Practical salinity of the water body | Pressure (measured variable) in the water body exerted by overlying sea water and any medium above it | Pressure (measured variable) in the water body exerted by overlying sea water only | Profiling Float - Argo | Research Charter: IN2017_C01 | Research Transit: IN2016_T01 | Research Transit: IN2016_T03 | Research Transit: IN2017_T02 | Research Transit: IN2024_T01 | Research Voyage: IN2016_V01 | Research Voyage: IN2016_V03 | Research Voyage: IN2016_V06 | Research Voyage: IN2018_V01 | Research Voyage: IN2018_V02 | Research Voyage: IN2019_V01 | Research Voyage: IN2019_V03 | Research Voyage: IN2019_V04 | Research Voyage: IN2020_V01 | Research Voyage: IN2020_V09 | Research Voyage: IN2021_V01 | Research Voyage: IN2021_V03 | Research Voyage: IN2022_V02 | Research Voyage: IN2022_V03 | Research Voyage: IN2022_V05 | Research Voyage: IN2022_V06 | Research Voyage: IN2022_V08 | Research Voyage: IN2023_V01 | Research Voyage: IN2023_V02 | Research Voyage: IN2023_V06 | Research Voyage: IN2023_V07 | Research Voyage: IN2024_V02 | Research Voyage: IN2024_V04 | Research Voyage: IN2025_V01 | Research Voyage: IN2025_V02 | Research Voyage: IN2025_V03 | Research Voyage: IN2025_V05 | Ship: Investigator (RV) | T/S (Temperature-Salinity) Profilers | Temperature of the water body | oceans | research vessel |

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List of Argo float platform numbers

url : https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/download.cfm?file_id=5714

ARGO Australia (Data Link)

url : https://imos.org.au/facilities/argofloats

ARGO Data access via IMOS (Data Link)

url : https://portal.aodn.org.au/

Access to Argo Metadata for O&A Users Only (Data Link)

local : /metadata/bc1b3741-e05a-5039-e044-00144f7bc0f4

Identifiers
  • global : 23fb54bc-94ae-41e4-a6f4-f70251fc712b