A5020420862- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Climate variability and models
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Geological formations and processes
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Climate change and permafrost
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Aquatic and Environmental Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2009-2024
International Space Station
2017
Oceanography Society
2017
European Space Agency
2017
NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
2017
NOAA National Weather Service
2017
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
2017
University of Washington
2017
Johnson Space Center
1985
In the past two decades, Argo Program has collected, processed and distributed over million vertical profiles of temperature salinity from upper kilometers global ocean. A similar number subsurface velocity observations near 1000 dbar have also been collected. This paper recounts history Program, its aspiration arising out World Ocean Circulation Experiment, to development implementation instrumentation telecommunication systems, various technical problems encountered. We describe data...
Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of Society for personal use, not redistribution. definitive version was published in 30, no. 2 (2017): 92–103, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2017.227.
Abstract Based on twenty years of Argo and ship/animal-borne/glider hydrographic profile data, we derive a new high resolution Atlas associated circulation field for the oceans above 2000 dbar. Satellite altimetric observations are used to explicitly regress out eddy noise in fit, greatly reducing one major sources noise. Geostrophic shears found from fitted geopotential anomaly fields. Ekman velocities estimated using satellite wind stresses. Both trajectory at 1000 dbar surface drifter...
Abstract Seasonally ice-covered marginal seas are among the most difficult regions in Arctic to study. Physical constraints imposed by variable presence of sea ice all stages growth and melt make upper water column air–sea interface especially challenging observe. At same time, flow solar energy through Alaska’s is one important regulators their weather climate, cover, ecosystems. The deficiency observing systems these areas hampers forecast services region a major contributor large...
Abstract The Argo array provides nearly 4000 temperature and salinity profiles of the top 2000 m ocean every 10 days. Still, floats will never be able to measure at all times, everywhere. Optimized float distributions should match spatial temporal variability many societally important features that they observe. Determining these is challenging because advection difficult predict. Using no external models, transition matrices based on existing trajectories provide statistical inferences...
Abstract The Madagascar Basin is the primary pathway for Antarctic Bottom Water to ventilate entire western Indian Ocean as part of Global Overturning Circulation. only way this water mass reach basin by crossing Southwest Ridge through its deep fracture zones. However, due scarcity observations, presence has been well‐established in Atlantis II zone. In May 2023, Deep Experiment deployed three SOLO Argo floats exit zones that were more likely transport Water: II, Novara, and Melville. These...
Internal wave activity in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is investigated using a fleet profiling floats. The floats continuously measured temperature and salinity as they drifted at parking depth 1500 dbar, allowing for reconstruction 2615 time series isopycnal displacements. Thanks to dense sampling eastern part GoM (east 90°W), geographical distribution internal waves displacement variance available potential energy (APE) revealed. Loop Current (LC) influence region, between Yucatan shelf west...
Abstract The Air-Launched Autonomous Micro Observer (ALAMO) is a versatile profiling float that can be launched from an aircraft to make temperature and salinity observations of the upper ocean for over year with high temporal sampling. Similar in dimensions weight airborne expendable bathythermograph (AXBT), but same capability as Argo floats, ALAMOs deployed A-sized (sonobuoy) launch tube, stern ramp cargo plane, or door small aircraft. Unlike AXBT, however, ALAMO directly measures...