NOAA: Argo, the 'Crown Jewel' of Ocean Observing Systems, Turns 25
December 14, 2024
December 14, 2024
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Dec. 14 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news:
Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a merchant mariner lowers a cylindrical robotic ocean observing instrument from a ship into the sea to record ocean temperature and salinity. Another instrument is deployed from a plane into the eye of a hurricane to take the pulse of the ocean during the storm. In Antarctic waters, a rounder float is released that will sin . . .
Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a merchant mariner lowers a cylindrical robotic ocean observing instrument from a ship into the sea to record ocean temperature and salinity. Another instrument is deployed from a plane into the eye of a hurricane to take the pulse of the ocean during the storm. In Antarctic waters, a rounder float is released that will sin . . .