Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Deployment of Argo Float APEX 6901926 May 2017
The Argo Float 6901926 was deployed on 20/05/2017 at 48.9012 N, -13.576 W. The most current measurement was taken on 12/02/2025. The autonomous floats drift on the ocean currents for 10 days at 1000 m before diving to its profiling depth of 2000 m, taking ocean property measurements of temperature and salinity on its ascent to the surface. These two essential climate variables describe the oceans' physical and thermodynamic state. Once surfaced the data are transmitted via satellite. Marine Institute floats used ARGOS communications until 2017, and moved to Iridium communications in 2018 allowing for more information transmitted at faster rates with a two-way communication to the float. The Iridium communication means the float surface times are between 15-30 minutes instead of hours using ARGOS communication. The data are accessible online at Erddap ( https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats.html) and https://argo.ucsd.edu/data/. The Marine Research Infrastructures team operate and manage Ireland's contribution to Argo - a global array of autonomous floats or profilers, deployed across the world's oceans, reporting subsurface ocean water properties to a wide range of users via satellite transmission links to data centers.
The Argo array is an indispensable component of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) required to understand and monitor the role of the ocean in the Earth’s climate system, in particular the heat and water balance. The International Argo programme currently has a network of approximately 4,000 Argo floats taking measurements in the world’s oceans and is integrated into the Copernicus programme and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The Euro-Argo European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), which Ireland is a member of, aims to sustain 25% of Argo International’s global fleet autonomous floats.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2022-10-28
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-02-20
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-10-28
- Citation identifier
- ie.marine.data:dataset.5009
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Marine Institute
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Use limitation
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While every effort is made in preparing the dataset no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the Marine Institute for any errors, omissions or misleading information. The Marine Institute accepts no responsibility for loss or damage occasioned or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full, as a consequence of any person acting, or refraining from acting as a result of a matter contained in this datasets or as a consequence of using this dataset for any purpose whatsoever.
- Use limitation
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- Access constraints
- CC%20BY%204.0
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- ie.marine.data:instrument.4945
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Sensor
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- ie.marine.data:platform.4892
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Platform
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- ie.marine.data:dataset.4983
- Association Type
- Cross reference
- Initiative Type
- Collection
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Begin date
- 2017-05-20
- End date
- 2025-02-12
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- Reference system identifier
- INSPIRE RS registry / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://erddap.marine.ie/erddap/tabledap/argoFloats.html CSV
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
http://www.marine.ie
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.marine.ie/site-area/infrastructure-facilities/marine-research-infrastructures/argo-network
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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Data supplied by Marine Institute.
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- File identifier
- ie.marine.data:dataset.5009 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Collection session
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-24T09:10:55.550226Z
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ISDI Metadata Profile
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1.2
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Marine Institute
Point of contact
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