Argo: The Robotic Ocean Observation System

[Thorin]

Turns out in the last couple of years several thousand robotic oceanic probes have been set afloat around the world...

Argo is an observation system for the Earth's oceans that provides real-time data for use in climate, weather, oceanographic and fisheries research. Argo consists of a large collection of small, drifting oceanic robotic probes deployed worldwide. The probes measure the salinity and temperature of the ocean at depths down to 2 km. Once every 10 days, the probes surface to transmit the measurements to scientists on shore via satellite. The data collected are freely available to everyone, without restrictions.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(oceanography)

EDIT: fixed URL link to use BBCode URL syntax, so link worked correctly - Melbosa

[Melbosa]

Very kewl.  Hopefully some fancy graphical website will pop up (or exists - but I couldn't find it) to show us some pretty pictures of the data being collected.

[Thorin]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(oceanography)

EDIT: fixed URL link to use BBCode URL syntax, so link worked correctly - Melbosa

I was gonna ask what was wrong with the link, but then I realized that it was cutting off the ")" at the end of the URL...  Thanks for fixing it!

What I'm interested in is some statistical analysis.  Apparently the Argos are showing a decline in ocean temperature even though the Global Warming model expected an increase in ocean temperature...