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On the future of Argo: A global, full-depth, multi-disciplinary array

2019-08-02 , Roemmich, Dean , Alford, Matthew H. , Claustre, Hervé , Johnson, Kenneth S. , King, Brian , Moum, James N. , Oke, Peter , Owens, W. Brechner , Pouliquen, Sylvie , Purkey, Sarah G. , Scanderbeg, Megan , Suga, Koushirou , Wijffels, Susan E. , Zilberman, Nathalie , Bakker, Dorothee , Baringer, Molly O. , Belbeoch, Mathieu , Bittig, Henry C. , Boss, Emmanuel S. , Calil, Paulo H. R. , Carse, Fiona , Carval, Thierry , Chai, Fei , Conchubhair, Diarmuid Ó. , d’Ortenzio, Fabrizio , Dall'Olmo, Giorgio , Desbruyeres, Damien , Fennel, Katja , Fer, Ilker , Ferrari, Raffaele , Forget, Gael , Freeland, Howard , Fujiki, Tetsuichi , Gehlen, Marion , Geenan, Blair , Hallberg, Robert , Hibiya, Toshiyuki , Hosoda, Shigeki , Jayne, Steven R. , Jochum, Markus , Johnson, Gregory C. , Kang, KiRyong , Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas , Körtzinger, Arne , Le Traon, Pierre-Yves , Lenn, Yueng-Djern , Maze, Guillaume , Mork, Kjell Arne , Morris, Tamaryn , Nagai, Takeyoshi , Nash, Jonathan D. , Naveira Garabato, Alberto C. , Olsen, Are , Pattabhi Rama Rao, Eluri , Prakash, Satya , Riser, Stephen C. , Schmechtig, Catherine , Schmid, Claudia , Shroyer, Emily L. , Sterl, Andreas , Sutton, Philip J. H. , Talley, Lynne D. , Tanhua, Toste , Thierry, Virginie , Thomalla, Sandy J. , Toole, John M. , Troisi, Ariel , Trull, Thomas W. , Turton, Jon , Velez-Belchi, Pedro , Walczowski, Waldemar , Wang, Haili , Wanninkhof, Rik , Waterhouse, Amy F. , Waterman, Stephanie N. , Watson, Andrew J. , Wilson, Cara , Wong, Annie P. S. , Xu, Jianping , Yasuda, Ichiro

The Argo Program has been implemented and sustained for almost two decades, as a global array of about 4000 profiling floats. Argo provides continuous observations of ocean temperature and salinity versus pressure, from the sea surface to 2000 dbar. The successful installation of the Argo array and its innovative data management system arose opportunistically from the combination of great scientific need and technological innovation. Through the data system, Argo provides fundamental physical observations with broad societally-valuable applications, built on the cost-efficient and robust technologies of autonomous profiling floats. Following recent advances in platform and sensor technologies, even greater opportunity exists now than 20 years ago to (i) improve Argo’s global coverage and value beyond the original design, (ii) extend Argo to span the full ocean depth, (iii) add biogeochemical sensors for improved understanding of oceanic cycles of carbon, nutrients, and ecosystems, and (iv) consider experimental sensors that might be included in the future, for example to document the spatial and temporal patterns of ocean mixing. For Core Argo and each of these enhancements, the past, present, and future progression along a path from experimental deployments to regional pilot arrays to global implementation is described. The objective is to create a fully global, top-to-bottom, dynamically complete, and multidisciplinary Argo Program that will integrate seamlessly with satellite and with other in situ elements of the Global Ocean Observing System (Legler et al., 2015). The integrated system will deliver operational reanalysis and forecasting capability, and assessment of the state and variability of the climate system with respect to physical, biogeochemical, and ecosystems parameters. It will enable basic research of unprecedented breadth and magnitude, and a wealth of ocean-education and outreach opportunities.

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The Argo Program : present and future

2017-06 , Jayne, Steven R. , Roemmich, Dean , Zilberman, Nathalie , Riser, Stephen C. , Johnson, Kenneth S. , Johnson, Gregory C. , Piotrowicz, Stephen R.

The Argo Program has revolutionized large-scale physical oceanography through its contributions to basic research, national and international climate assessment, education, and ocean state estimation and forecasting. This article discusses the present status of Argo and enhancements that are underway. Extensions of the array into seasonally ice-covered regions and marginal seas as well as increased numbers of floats along the equator and around western boundary current extensions have been proposed. In addition, conventional Argo floats, with their 2,000 m sampling limit, currently observe only the upper half of the open ocean volume. Recent advances in profiling float technology and in the accuracy and stability of float-mounted conductivity-temperature-depth sensors make it practical to obtain measurements to 6,000 m. The Deep Argo array will help observe and constrain the global budgets of heat content, freshwater, and steric sea level, as well as the full-depth ocean circulation. Finally, another extension to the Argo Program is the addition of a diverse set of chemical sensors to profiling floats in order to build a Biogeochemical-Argo array to understand the carbon cycle, the biological pump, and ocean acidification.

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Salinity and temperature balances at the SPURS central mooring during fall and winter

2015-03 , Farrar, J. Thomas , Rainville, Luc , Plueddemann, Albert J. , Kessler, William S. , Lee, Craig M. , Hodges, Benjamin A. , Schmitt, Raymond W. , Edson, James B. , Riser, Stephen C. , Eriksen, Charles C. , Fratantoni, David M.

One part of the Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study (SPURS) field campaign focused on understanding the physical processes affecting the evolution of upper-ocean salinity in the region of climatological maximum sea surface salinity in the subtropical North Atlantic (SPURS-1). An upper-ocean salinity budget provides a useful framework for increasing this understanding. The SPURS-1 program included a central heavily instrumented mooring for making accurate measurements of air-sea surface fluxes, as well as other moorings, Argo floats, and gliders that together formed a dense observational array. Data from this array are used to estimate terms in the upper-ocean salinity and heat budgets during the SPURS-1 campaign, with a focus on the first several months (October 2012 to February 2013) when the surface mixed layer was becoming deeper, fresher, and cooler. Specifically, we examine the salinity and temperature balances for an upper-ocean mixed layer, defined as the layer where the density is within 0.4 kg m–3 of its surface value. The gross features of the evolution of upper-ocean salinity and temperature during this fall/winter season are explained by a combination of evaporation and precipitation at the sea surface, horizontal transport of heat and salt by mixed-layer currents, and vertical entrainment of fresher, cooler fluid into the layer as it deepened. While all of these processes were important in the observed seasonal (fall) freshening at this location in the salinity-maximum region, the variability of salinity on monthly-to-intraseasonal time scales resulted primarily from horizontal advection.

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Northern Arabian Sea Circulation-Autonomous Research (NASCar) : a research initiative based on autonomous sensors

2017-06 , Centurioni, Luca R. , Hormann, Verena , Talley, Lynne D. , Arzeno, Isabella B. , Beal, Lisa M. , Caruso, Michael J. , Conry, Patrick , Echols, Rosalind , Fernando, Harindra J. S. , Giddings, Sarah N. , Gordon, Arnold L. , Graber, Hans C. , Harcourt, Ramsey R. , Jayne, Steven R. , Jensen, Tommy G. , Lee, Craig M. , Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J. , L’Hegaret, Pierre , Lucas, Andrew J. , Mahadevan, Amala , McClean, Julie L. , Pawlak, Geno , Rainville, Luc , Riser, Stephen C. , Seo, Hyodae , Shcherbina, Andrey Y. , Skyllingstad, Eric D. , Sprintall, Janet , Subrahmanyam, Bulusu , Terrill, Eric , Todd, Robert E. , Trott, Corinne , Ulloa, Hugo N. , Wang, He

The Arabian Sea circulation is forced by strong monsoonal winds and is characterized by vigorous seasonally reversing currents, extreme differences in sea surface salinity, localized substantial upwelling, and widespread submesoscale thermohaline structures. Its complicated sea surface temperature patterns are important for the onset and evolution of the Asian monsoon. This article describes a program that aims to elucidate the role of upper-ocean processes and atmospheric feedbacks in setting the sea surface temperature properties of the region. The wide range of spatial and temporal scales and the difficulty of accessing much of the region with ships due to piracy motivated a novel approach based on state-of-the-art autonomous ocean sensors and platforms. The extensive data set that is being collected, combined with numerical models and remote sensing data, confirms the role of planetary waves in the reversal of the Somali Current system. These data also document the fast response of the upper equatorial ocean to monsoon winds through changes in temperature and salinity and the connectivity of the surface currents across the northern Indian Ocean. New observations of thermohaline interleaving structures and mixing in setting the surface temperature properties of the northern Arabian Sea are also discussed.

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Autonomous multi-platform observations during the Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study

2017-06 , Lindstrom, Eric , Shcherbina, Andrey Y. , Rainville, Luc , Farrar, J. Thomas , Centurioni, Luca R. , Dong, Shenfu , D'Asaro, Eric A. , Eriksen, Charles C. , Fratantoni, David M. , Hodges, Benjamin A. , Hormann, Verena , Kessler, William S. , Lee, Craig M. , Riser, Stephen C. , St. Laurent, Louis C. , Volkov, Denis L.

The Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study (SPURS) aims to understand the patterns and variability of sea surface salinity. In order to capture the wide range of spatial and temporal scales associated with processes controlling salinity in the upper ocean, research vessels delivered autonomous instruments to remote sites, one in the North Atlantic and one in the Eastern Pacific. Instruments sampled for one complete annual cycle at each of these two sites, which are subject to contrasting atmospheric forcing. The SPURS field programs coordinated sampling from many different platforms, using a mix of Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches. This article discusses the motivations, implementation, and first results of the SPURS-1 and SPURS-2 programs.

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