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ARGO: Data from lagrangian profilers

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General  
Data holding centreIfremer, Engineering of Information Systems
CountryFrance  France
Time period01/01/1999 onwards
OngoingYes
Observations 
Parameters

Raw fluorometer output; Optical backscatter; Salinity of the water column; Temperature of the water column; Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column

Instruments

Salinity sensor

Description 
Summary

Argo: vertical profiles of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and back scattering collected in near real time. Data are reprocessed in delayed mode.

OriginatorsAtlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
British Oceanographic Data Centre
CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Marine Environmental Data Section
Ifremer Head Office
Indian National Centre For Ocean Information Services
Japan Meteorological Agency
Korea Institute Of Ocean Science & Technology
Korea Meteorological Administration
National Marine Data and Information Service,Ministry of Natural Resource
Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources
References

Argo Data Management team (2013) Argo quality control manual, 03/01/2013,50p; Thierry Carval, Ann Thresher,Anh Tran,Takashi Yoshida,Claudia Schmid... (2013) Argo user's manual, version 3.03, 28/08/2013,90p

Data web sitehttp://www.argodatamgt.org/
Availability 
OrganisationIfremer, Engineering of Information Systems
AvailabilityUnrestricted
ContactCARVAL Thierry
Address

Ifremer, Engineering of Information Systems
IFREMER Centre de Bretagne ZI Pointe du diable CS 10070
PLOUZANE

29280
France

Telephone+33 (0)2 98 22 45 97
Facsimile+33 (0)2 98.22.46.44
Emailthierry.carval@ifremer.fr
Administration 
Collating centreIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Local identifierARGO
Global identifier5972
Last revised2013-11-14