Argo Ahoy

摘要

Scientists this month have fully deployed 3000 oceanographic floats around the world, completing work on an 8-year-old network designed to monitor the world's seas. Data from the floats have already helped scientists detect changes in the stratification of waters that affect major food webs and interpret the influence of global winds on climate. Climate-forecasting centers around the world also use Argo data, and as the data sets expand, climate predictions should become more accurate, says Dean Roemmich of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, who co-chairs the steering committee.