dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-26T20:18:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-26T20:18:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.citation | ICES Data and Information Group (DIG) (2006) ICES Guidelines for Profiling Float data. (Compiled January 2001; revised April 2006). Copenhagen, Denmark, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), 7pp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1362 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11329/242 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1362 | |
dc.description.abstract | Profiling floats are neutrally buoyant devices that periodically surface to transmit data to a
satellite system. The float drifts along a specified pressure surface for
some period of time
(typically seven to 10 days) after which it surfaces. During the ascent, sensors attached to the
float measure ocean parameters such as temperature and conductivity. While at the surface, the
float transmits the data, along with curr
ent float position and time information, to a satellite
system. After a repeated transmission over a period of up to one day, the float descends to it
predetermined pressure level
(called also “parking depth”) and repeats the cycle.
Floats were develop
ed during the
World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE). Present day
floats can obtain depths of 2000 m, and complete about 100 cycles. Accuracy of about 0.01
C in
temperature and 0.01 in salinity are obtainable.
Profiling floats are now (2006) mainly de
ployed
as part of the
ARGO project and data collected
in this project must be supplied to one of the two ARGO global data cent
res
(Coriolis and US
-
GODAE servers) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject.other | Satellite sensing | |
dc.subject.other | Observation | |
dc.subject.other | Profiling floats | |
dc.title | ICES Guidelines for Profiling Float data. (Compiled January 2001; revised April 2006) | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Data Guidelines float | en_US |
dc.type | Report | en_US |
dc.description.status | Published | en_US |
dc.format.pages | 7pp. | en_US |
dc.contributor.corpauthor | ICES Data and Information Group (DIG) | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | Copenhagen, Denmark | en_US |
dc.subject.parameterDiscipline | Parameter Discipline::Physical oceanography | en_US |
dc.subject.instrumentType | Argo floats | en_US |
dc.subject.instrumentType | Satellite | |
dc.subject.dmProcesses | Data Management Practices | en_US |
obps.resourceurl.publisher | http://ices.dk/publications/library/Pages/default.aspx?k=data%20guidelines | en_US |