In the early 1990s, Owens and Russ Davis, a physical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, were developing automated ocean glider and float technology outfitted with ...

Argo Robotic Instrument Network Now Covers Most Of The Globe Date: December 16, 2004 Source: Scripps Institution Of Oceanography / University Of California, San Diego ...

Researchers with the international Argo program ... "With 1,500 floats in the water we are now looking at almost the whole planet," said Scripps Institution of Oceanography's John Gould, Argo ...

The Argo network of ocean-observing sensors is expected to pay its biggest dividends to climate researchers in the future after several decades’ worth of Argo data help them observe some of the ...

These Argo floats are redesigned to measure the impacts of climate change in the deep ocean -- where other monitors can't reach. Scripps Institution of Oceanography . Second in a series.

“Argo has changed the way we do large-scale oceanography,” Rudnick said. Spray gliders The next generation after Argo floats, Spray gliders also take underwater measurements, but are navigated ...

While onboard NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa, the Scripps Oceanography team will deploy four Deep Argo robotic floats along an unnamed deep-sea ridge east of the North Island of New Zealand. The ...

Ultimately, he and other researchers envision a Deep Argo network of about 500-1,000 floats globally. Johnson dreams even bigger, perhaps as many as 1,200 floats, which each carrying a price tag ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego works to understand and protect the planet and find solutions to our most pressing environmental challenges. Humankind faces catastrophic changes in ...

STEPHEN C. RISER, LI REN, ANNIE WONG, SALINITY IN ARGO, Oceanography, Vol. 21, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Salinity (MARCH 2008), pp. 56-67 ...