Argo Status• 3000 floats in November

2007 !• Commitments for

2008&2009 seem ok• Global array issues • QC and delayed mode

processing • Pressure errors

• New products (trajectory)• New climatologies

• Legal issues (ABE-LOS)• Evolution of the AST

(terms of reference)• Links with GODAE

The pre-GODAE in-situ ocean observing system was clearly inadequate for the global scope of GODAE => Development of Argo : a joint GODAE/CLIVAR pilot project.

Outstanding progress so far

thanks to international cooperation.

A global array (3000 floats) is in place

(Nov. 2007)

An efficient data management system

is in place

Main issue is sustainability

http://argo.jcommops.org

To what extent have we achieved what we said we would achieve?

Why do we have such large gaps when we have the target number of floats?

DMQC is improving, but still needs much more work

DAC Total floats>12m oldTotal floats>12m old that

have been through DMQC %AOML 142870 82773 57.9

BODC 13663 4476 32.8

Coriolis 48223 25428 52.7

CSIO 1392 1383 99.4

CSIRO 8720 7039 80.7

INCOIS 11462 8680 75.7

JMA 48467 26870 55.4

KMA 4735 1461 30.9

MEDS 13797 12499 90.6

GTS 23609 0 0

Total 316938 170609 53.8

New profiles = 310/day = 114,000 per year = 67% of present D-Mode files

Undertake the work needed to ensure that by 2010 Europe will be able to:

Deploy, maintain and operate an array of 800 floats. This will require Europe to deploy 250 floats per

annum worldwide.

Provide a world-class service to the research (climate) and environment monitoring (e.g. GMES)

communities.

Main expected outcomes : Agreement for long term (10-20 years) : operation of Euro-Argo (financial, governance,

organisation, technical). Member States + EC

Euro Argo Preparatory Phase (FP7 project)

PP partnership

• France: IFREMER (representing the multi-agency Coriolis project) + SHOM

• Germany: BSH + Konsortium Deutsche Meeresforschung (KDM)

• UK : Met Office and NERC.

• Netherlands: KNMI• Spain: IEO • Italy: OGS

• Ireland: Marine Institute• Norway : IMR• Portugal : FCCUL• Greece : HCMR• Bulgaria : USOF• Poland : IOPAS

Europe contribution to the global array (from Argo Information Center) (15% - December 2007)Need to be consolidated (long-term) and extended (25%)