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Euro-Argo is a European Research Infrastructure (ERIC) dedicated to in situ ocean observation with Argo floats.
An individual Argo float is deployed in the open ocean. For a few years, it will continuously sample the ocean from surface to 2000 meters (or more with deep floats). The observations are ocean state essential variables such as temperature, salinity, current, oxygen, chlorophyll, pH, carbon.
Euro-Argo is the European contribution the global Argo observation network sustained with more than 3000 active floats.
Euro-Argo data-management collects, decodes, controls and distributes European floats data to Argo global data assembly centre (Argo GDAC).
Euro-Argo is hosting one of the 2 Argo GDACs (Ifremer in France and USGODAE server in USA).
Operation
The objective of Euro-Argo is to operate the European contribution of Argo, which should represent 30% of the global network.
These last 12 months, 25 568 profiles from 745 active floats were collected, controlled and distributed.
Compared to 2014, the number of profiles increased by 18%, the number of floats increased by 14%. The increase in both profile and platforms number is mainly explained by new bio-Argo floats.
The 745 floats managed during that period had 54 versions of data formats.
All observations are publicly available in in the homogeneous Argo NetCDF CF data and metadata files on:
Once a month, a snapshot of Argo data set is performed. A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is minted on the archive of the month.
The data DOIs and their related publications are listed on:
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Map of the profiles from active floats decoded by Euro-Argo RI this year (2015), among the other DAC’s (providers) profiles (Euro-Argo: green, other DACs: grey)
Data and computation
Euro-Argo data are available from both “static” files or from data bases.
ENVRIPLUS data infrastructure will help Euro-Argo in contributing to cross-domain activities such as ocean-atmosphere interaction. Here is a short description of the use case that would be interesting for Euro-Argo RI and any other RI providing observation data.
Data subscription service to scientific users for publicly available data:
References
| Go-between | Thierry Carval |
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| RI representative | Sylvie Pouliquen |
| Period of requirements collection | From start month year to end month year |
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