Home > Oceanography Programs Argo: Global Ocean Observing Program The Argo program comprises a network of oceanography floats belonging to 25 countries. The program’s ultimate objective is to release 3,000 floats covering ice-free areas to study long-term ocean...
Home > Oceanography Programs TAO: Tropical Atmospheric Ocean Project This long-term oceanography projects measures telemetering oceanographic and meteorological data in the Tropical Pacific Ocean region and sends them to shore in real-time via Argos. The “array” of...
Home > Oceanography Programs Triton: Moored Buoy Network The Triton array of buoys or the Triangle Trans-Ocean buoy network, is a series of buoys for measuring surface meteorology and upper ocean. The buoys are deployed by JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth...
Home > Oceanography Programs Global Drifter Program The goal of the Global Drifting Buoy Programme is to produce new seasonal surface circulation maps of the world’s oceans. The data collected via Argos images provide key information to enable scientists: to...
Home > Oceanography Programs MARLISAT Project ESA & CLS: Using Space to Address Ocean Marine Litter Around 250kg of plastic leak into the ocean each second. Monitoring marine plastic from the Earth’s surface is not easy because it’s not possible to see large...
