Objective
Objective
The Euro-Argo ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) allows active coordination and strengthening of the European contribution to the international Argo programme. Its aims are:
- to provide, deploy and operate an array of around 800 floats contributing to the global array (a European contribution of ¼ of the global array)
- to provide enhanced coverage in the European regional seas
- to implement the new phase of Argo, with extensions towards biogeochemistry, greater depths and high latitudes
- to provide quality controlled data and access to the data sets and data products to the research (climate and oceanography) and operational oceanography (e.g. Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service - CMEMS) communities.
Missions
Argo must be considered in its ensemble: not only the instruments, but also the logistics necessary for their preparation and deployments, field operations, the associated data streams and data centers. That's why Euro-Argo establishes a high level of cooperation between partners in all implementation aspects:
- operation at sea,
- array monitoring and evolution,
- technological and scientific developments,
- improving data access for research and operational oceanography (CMEMS),
- link to the international management of the Argo programme,
- promote Argo, enlarge the Argo data users community and help answering its needs.
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Deep Apex float onboard the RSS Discovery in January 2016 | Deep NKE float ready for deployment on the Atalante R/V during REXX 2017 cruise | Biogeochemical Argo float (Provor) deployment in the Mediterranean Sea in 2015 |
