argoFloats eng UTF8 dataset service Data Requests Marine Institute Ireland +353 91 387 200 Rinville, Oranmore Galway Galway EIRE Ireland datarequests@marine.ie pointOfContact 2026-03-08 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 3 column row temporal Argo Float Vertical Profiles 2026-03-08 creation erddap3.marine.ie argoFloats Argo Argo support@argo.net http://www.argo.net/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Argo float vertical profiles from Coriolis Global Data Assembly Centres (GDAC). Argo is an international collaboration that collects high-quality temperature and salinity profiles from the upper 2000m of the ice-free global ocean and currents from intermediate depths. The data come from battery-powered autonomous floats that spend most of their life drifting at depth where they are stabilised by being neutrally buoyant at the "parking depth" pressure by having a density equal to the ambient pressure and a compressibility that is less than that of sea water. At present there are several models of profiling float used in Argo. All work in a similar fashion but differ somewhat in their design characteristics. At typically 10-day intervals, the floats pump fluid into an external bladder and rise to the surface over about 6 hours while measuring temperature and salinity. Satellites or GPS determine the position of the floats when they surface, and the floats transmit their data to the satellites. The bladder then deflates and the float returns to its original density and sinks to drift until the cycle is repeated. Floats are designed to make about 150 such cycles. Data Management URL: http://www.argodatamgt.org/Documentation Argo Argo support@argo.net http://www.argo.net/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information pointOfContact adjusted argo array assembly best centre centres charge coded contains coriolis creation currents cycle data date day days degree delayed denoting density determined direction equals error estimate file firmware flag float format gdac geostrophic global handbook have identifier in-situ instrument investigator its its-90 JULD julian level missions mode name number ocean oceanography oceans passed performed position positioning practical pres pressure principal process processing profile profiles project psal quality rdac real real time real-time realtime reference regional relative salinity sampling scale scheme sea sea level sea-level seawater serial situ station statistics system TEMP temperature through type unique update values version vertical water theme Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Pressure > Water Pressure theme GCMD Science Keywords Argo project time time latitude longitude sea_water_pressure sea_water_pressure sea_water_temperature sea_water_temperature sea_water_practical_salinity sea_water_practical_salinity theme CF Standard Name Table v29 The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information. Argo largerWorkCitation project Unidata Common Data Model TrajectoryProfile largerWorkCitation project eng geoscientificInformation 1 -60.582455 64.57206 4.8653517 84.10659 seconds 2003-10-22T03:10:17Z 2026-03-04T23:45:30Z Argo Float Vertical Profiles 2026-03-08 creation Argo Argo support@argo.net http://www.argo.net/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Argo float vertical profiles from Coriolis Global Data Assembly Centres (GDAC). Argo is an international collaboration that collects high-quality temperature and salinity profiles from the upper 2000m of the ice-free global ocean and currents from intermediate depths. The data come from battery-powered autonomous floats that spend most of their life drifting at depth where they are stabilised by being neutrally buoyant at the "parking depth" pressure by having a density equal to the ambient pressure and a compressibility that is less than that of sea water. At present there are several models of profiling float used in Argo. All work in a similar fashion but differ somewhat in their design characteristics. At typically 10-day intervals, the floats pump fluid into an external bladder and rise to the surface over about 6 hours while measuring temperature and salinity. Satellites or GPS determine the position of the floats when they surface, and the floats transmit their data to the satellites. The bladder then deflates and the float returns to its original density and sinks to drift until the cycle is repeated. Floats are designed to make about 150 such cycles. Data Management URL: http://www.argodatamgt.org/Documentation ERDDAP tabledap 1 -60.582455 64.57206 4.8653517 84.10659 seconds 2003-10-22T03:10:17Z 2026-03-04T23:45:30Z tight ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap3.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats ERDDAP:tabledap ERDDAP-tabledap ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download Argo Float Vertical Profiles 2026-03-08 creation Argo Argo support@argo.net http://www.argo.net/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Argo float vertical profiles from Coriolis Global Data Assembly Centres (GDAC). Argo is an international collaboration that collects high-quality temperature and salinity profiles from the upper 2000m of the ice-free global ocean and currents from intermediate depths. The data come from battery-powered autonomous floats that spend most of their life drifting at depth where they are stabilised by being neutrally buoyant at the "parking depth" pressure by having a density equal to the ambient pressure and a compressibility that is less than that of sea water. At present there are several models of profiling float used in Argo. All work in a similar fashion but differ somewhat in their design characteristics. At typically 10-day intervals, the floats pump fluid into an external bladder and rise to the surface over about 6 hours while measuring temperature and salinity. Satellites or GPS determine the position of the floats when they surface, and the floats transmit their data to the satellites. The bladder then deflates and the float returns to its original density and sinks to drift until the cycle is repeated. Floats are designed to make about 150 such cycles. Data Management URL: http://www.argodatamgt.org/Documentation OPeNDAP 1 -60.582455 64.57206 4.8653517 84.10659 seconds 2003-10-22T03:10:17Z 2026-03-04T23:45:30Z tight OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess https://erddap3.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats OPeNDAP:OPeNDAP OPeNDAP An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download Argo Float Vertical Profiles 2026-03-08 creation Argo Argo support@argo.net http://www.argo.net/ information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator Argo float vertical profiles from Coriolis Global Data Assembly Centres (GDAC). Argo is an international collaboration that collects high-quality temperature and salinity profiles from the upper 2000m of the ice-free global ocean and currents from intermediate depths. The data come from battery-powered autonomous floats that spend most of their life drifting at depth where they are stabilised by being neutrally buoyant at the "parking depth" pressure by having a density equal to the ambient pressure and a compressibility that is less than that of sea water. At present there are several models of profiling float used in Argo. All work in a similar fashion but differ somewhat in their design characteristics. At typically 10-day intervals, the floats pump fluid into an external bladder and rise to the surface over about 6 hours while measuring temperature and salinity. Satellites or GPS determine the position of the floats when they surface, and the floats transmit their data to the satellites. The bladder then deflates and the float returns to its original density and sinks to drift until the cycle is repeated. Floats are designed to make about 150 such cycles. Data Management URL: http://www.argodatamgt.org/Documentation ERDDAP Subset 1 -60.582455 64.57206 4.8653517 84.10659 seconds 2003-10-22T03:10:17Z 2026-03-04T23:45:30Z tight ERDDAP_Subset https://erddap3.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats.subset search Subset Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the dataset download physicalMeasurement fileNumber String File Number data_type String Data type format_version String File format version handbook_version String Data handbook version reference_date_time double Date of reference for Julian days date_creation double Date of file creation date_update double Date of update of this file platform_number String Float unique identifier project_name String Name of the project pi_name String Name of the principal investigator cycle_number int Float cycle number direction String Direction of the station profiles data_center String Data centre in charge of float data processing dc_reference String Station unique identifier in data centre data_state_indicator String Degree of processing the data have passed through data_mode String Delayed mode or real time data platform_type String Type of float float_serial_no String Serial number of the float firmware_version String Instrument firmware version wmo_inst_type String Coded instrument type time double Julian day (UTC) of the station relative to REFERENCE_DATE_TIME time_qc String Quality on date and time time_location double Julian day (UTC) of the location relative to REFERENCE_DATE_TIME position_qc String Quality on position (latitude and longitude) positioning_system String Positioning system profile_pres_qc String Global quality flag of PRES profile profile_temp_qc String Global quality flag of TEMP profile profile_psal_qc String Global quality flag of PSAL profile vertical_sampling_scheme String Vertical sampling scheme config_mission_number int Unique number denoting the missions performed by the float pres float Sea water pressure, equals 0 at sea-level pres_qc String quality flag pres_adjusted float Sea water pressure, equals 0 at sea-level pres_adjusted_qc String quality flag pres_aqdjusted_error float Contains the error on the adjusted values as determined by the delayed mode QC process temp float Sea temperature in-situ ITS-90 scale temp_qc String quality flag temp_adjusted float Sea temperature in-situ ITS-90 scale temp_adjusted_qc String quality flag temp_adjusted_error float Contains the error on the adjusted values as determined by the delayed mode QC process psal float Practical salinity psal_qc String quality flag psal_adjusted float Practical salinity psal_adjusted_qc String quality flag psal_adjusted_error float Contains the error on the adjusted values as determined by the delayed mode QC process Data Requests Marine Institute Ireland +353 91 387 200 Rinville, Oranmore Galway Galway EIRE Ireland datarequests@marine.ie distributor OPeNDAP DAP/2.0 https://erddap3.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats.html order Data Subset Form ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. download https://erddap3.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats.graph order Make-A-Graph Form ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. mapDigital This record was created from dataset metadata by ERDDAP Version 2.14