Argo—Two Decades: Global Oceanography, Revolutionized

Author:

Johnson Gregory C.1,Hosoda Shigeki2,Jayne Steven R.3,Oke Peter R.4,Riser Stephen C.5,Roemmich Dean6,Suga Tohsio7,Thierry Virginie8,Wijffels Susan E.3,Xu Jianping9

Affiliation:

1. Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA;

2. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japan;

3. Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA;,

4. Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia;

5. School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA;

6. Integrative Oceanography Division and Climate, Atmospheric Science, and Physical Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA;

7. Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan;

8. Université de Brest, IFREMER, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, F‐29280 Plouzané, France;

9. Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China;

Abstract

Argo, an international, global observational array of nearly 4,000 autonomous robotic profiling floats, each measuring ocean temperature and salinity from 0 to 2,000 m on nominal 10-day cycles, has revolutionized physical oceanography. Argo started at the turn of the millennium,growing out of advances in float technology over the previous several decades. After two decades, with well over 2 million profiles made publicly available in real time, Argo data have underpinned more than 4,000 scientific publications and improved countless nowcasts, forecasts, and projections. We review a small subset of those accomplishments, such as elucidating remarkable zonal jets spanning the deep tropical Pacific; increasing understanding of ocean eddies and the roles of mixing in shaping water masses and circulation; illuminating interannual to decadal ocean variability; quantifying, in concert with satellite data, contributions of ocean warming and ice melting to sea level rise; improving coupled numerical weather predictions; and underpinning decadal climate forecasts.

Publisher

Annual Reviews

Subject

Oceanography

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