Deployment Cruise-15
Fifteenth batch of Argo floats of China Argo
being deployed in the west Pacific Ocean
Fourteen APEX Argo floats made by Teledyne Webb Research, USA including 6 iridium floats are going to be deployed into the west Pacific Ocean in June to August, 2012 from R/V OCEAN VI of Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, of which 5 were successfully deployed on June 7-10. The floats belongs to“Study of the upper ocean structure and its variation and prediction based on the global real-time ocean observation (Argo) program", a project for “State Key Basic Research Development Program”of the Ministry of Science and Technology,of which the Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA is in charge and "Argo profiling float observation of the sea areas where the tropical cyclone generates" of the State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environmental Dynamics that China Argo Real-time Data Center is responsible for. This is the 15th batch of float deployed by China Argo.
Fig. 1 Positions of 14 floats deployed in west Pacific Ocean