MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S001
Argo Core
Discover marine observations available through Argo Core, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- Argo Data Management Team / GDACs
- Role
- Observation archive + NRT network
- Platforms
- Profiling floats
- Observed variables
- Temperature; salinity; pressure; trajectories
- Spatial coverage
- Global open ocean
- Period
- ~1999/2000-present
- Depth coverage
- Surface to ~2000 m typical
- QC and data mode
- Real-time QC + delayed-mode scientific QC; per-variable QC/error
- Access method
- GDAC HTTP/FTP/rsync; US/Euro-Argo selection tools
- Indexed download targets
- 3
Canonical parameters
- Practical salinity
practical_salinity - Sea-water pressure
sea_water_pressure - Sea-water temperature
sea_water_temperature
Discovery and access
Use profile index files to build a very efficient existence index before touching NetCDF.