Argo Status
• 3000 floats in November
2007 !
• Commitments for
2008&2009 seem ok
• Global array issues
• QC and delayed mode
processing
• Pressure errors
• New products (trajectory)
• New climatologies
• Legal issues (ABE-LOS)
• Evolution of the AST
(terms of reference)
• Links with GODAE
The pre-GODAE in-situ ocean observing system was clearly inadequate for
the global scope of GODAE => Development of Argo : a joint
GODAE/CLIVAR pilot project.
Outstanding
progress so far
thanks to
international
cooperation.
A global array (3000
floats) is in place
(Nov. 2007)
An efficient data
management system
is in place
Main issue is
sustainability
http://argo.jcommops.org
To what extent have we achieved what we
said we would achieve?
Why do we have such large gaps when we
have the target number of floats?
DMQC is improving, but still needs
much more work
DAC
Total floats>12m old
Total floats>12m old that have
been through DMQC
%
AOML
142870
82773
57.9
BODC
13663
4476
32.8
Coriolis
48223
25428
52.7
CSIO
1392
1383
99.4
CSIRO
8720
7039
80.7
INCOIS
11462
8680
75.7
JMA
48467
26870
55.4
KMA
4735
1461
30.9
MEDS
13797
12499
90.6
GTS
23609
0
0
Total
316938
170609
53.8
New profiles = 310/day = 114,000 per year = 67% of present D-Mode files
Euro Argo Preparatory Phase (FP7 project)
Undertake the work needed to ensure that by 2010
Europe will be able to:
Deploy, maintain and operate an array of 800 floats.
This will require Europe to deploy 250 floats per
annum worldwide.
Provide a world-class service to the research
(climate) and environment monitoring (e.g. GMES)
communities.
Main expected outcomes : Agreement for long term (10-20
years) : operation of Euro-Argo (financial, governance,
organisation, technical). Member States + EC
PP partnership
• France: IFREMER
(representing the multiagency Coriolis project) +
SHOM
• Germany: BSH +
Konsortium Deutsche
Meeresforschung (KDM)
• UK : Met Office and
NERC.
• Netherlands: KNMI
• Spain: IEO
• Italy: OGS
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Ireland: Marine Institute
Norway : IMR
Portugal : FCCUL
Greece : HCMR
Bulgaria : USOF
Poland : IOPAS
Europe contribution to the global array
(from Argo Information Center) (15% - December 2007)
Need to be consolidated (long-term) and extended (25%)