Region: Southern Ocean

Biogeochemical Argo floats are profiling floats that, in addition to temperature and salinity, carry sensors to measure any combination of dissolved oxygen, pH, dissolved nitrate, chlorophyll fluorescence, particulate backscatter and incoming solar radiation. These measurements are used to address science questions regarding variability in the oceans’ biological carbon pump, the uptake of anthropogenic CO2 by…

Argo Floats deployed by IMOS provide real-time observations of the oceans around Australia. Argo floats measure both temperature and salinity in the upper 2000m of the ocean every 10 days. Argo floats have revolutionised our understanding of the broad scale structure of the ocean. Since the Argo program began, the array of floats have provided…