Objectives and Applications
It will provide a quantitative description of the changing state of the upper ocean and the patterns of ocean climate variability from months to decades, including heat and freshwater storage and transport.
The data will enhance the value of satellite altimeter data through measurement of subsurface temperature, salinity, and velocity, with sufficient coverage and resolution to permit interpretation of altimetric sea surface height variability.
Argo data will be used for initializing ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere forecast models, for data assimilation and for model testing.
Full Name
Argo
Mission Status
Operational (nominal)
Mission Agencies
Argo
Launch Date
21 Jun 1999
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EOL Date
Dec 2025
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