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Roemmich in 2017, speaking on the RV Tangaroa in New Zealand. Dean Roemmich (/ ˈ r ɛ m ɪ k / REM-ik [1]) is a contemporary American physical oceanographer.. Roemmich was the early leader behind the sensors array Argo which continuously and globally measures vertical profiles of oceanic conditions, chiefly temperature and salinity.
NOAAS Oceanographer is an American oceanographic research vessel scheduled to enter commissioned service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2025. She is under construction, with completion anticipated in early 2025. She is the second NOAA ship to bear the name Oceanographer.
NOAA acquired Discoverer and Oceanographer through an agreement with the United States Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command. [1] On 31 December 2020, the U.S. Navy awarded a US$178,082,877 contract to Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors of Houma, Louisiana, to design and build the two ships.
The distribution of active floats in the Argo array, colour coded by country that owns the float, as of February 2018. Argo is an international programme for researching the ocean. It uses profiling floats to observe temperature, salinity and currents. Recently it has observed bio-optical properties in the Earth's oceans.
The original Argo, used to find Titanic, was 15 feet (4.6 m)long, 3.5 feet (1.1 m) tall, and 3.5 feet (1.1 m) wide and weighed about 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) in air. It had an array of cameras looking forward and down, as well as strobes and incandescent lighting to illuminate the ocean floor.
The Argo program uses Apex floats. [ clarification needed ] These floats drift at a set depth for a period of 5 to 10 days before surfacing to transmit the data to satellites. The float will then descend back to the determined depth.
A profiling float becomes an Argo float only after it is launched in compliance with the Argo data policy. Just because a float goes up and down in the water column does not make it an Argo float. So please be careful about names. At one time my phrase "profiling float" was changed to "Argo float" that is a profound misconception of the program.
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