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2000, Oceanography 13(2):45–50, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2000.33
The Argo Project: Global Ocean Observations for Understanding and Prediction of Climate Variability
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Authors
Dean Roemmich | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA
W. Brechner Owens | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
First Paragraph
Oceanography is now engaged in the ambitious enterprise of designing and installing a global ocean observing system to provide unprecedented observation of seasonal to decadal variability (OCEANOBS99, 1999). This will enable major advances in understanding and prediction of climate along with other practical applications. The in situ backbone of the global system, indeed the only element that will produce a global subsurface dataset, is the Argo array of profiling floats (Argo Science Team, 1998, 1999a, 1999b).
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Citation
Roemmich, D., and W.B. Owens. 2000. The Argo Project: Global ocean observations for understanding and prediction of climate variability. Oceanography 13(2):45–50, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2000.33.