Bundesamt fur Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie

Autonomous Salinity Profiling Atlantic Floats

Principal Investigator:

Klaus-Peter Koltermann


   ARGOS-ID    PI-ID   GTS-ID Deployment-Date    Deployment-Position   EXPOCODE
    03887       169     69016   1998.05.12       46.070 N   31.140 W   06GA316_1
    03889       173     69018   1998.05.11       45.350 N   33.092 W   06GA316_1
    15599       289     69019   1999.06.19       51.834 N   29.490 W   06MT045_2
    15601       290     69020   1999.06.20       51.804 N   34.951 W   06MT045_2
    15604       291     69021   1999.06.17       51.053 N   24.650 W   06MT045_2
    21405       147     69022   2000.05.18       46.551 N   28.201 W   06GA350_1
    21406       148     69023   2000.05.19       46.401 N   29.083 W   06GA350_1
    21407       149     69024   2000.05.22       42.733 N   32.183 W   06GA350_1
    21408       150     69025   2000.05.22       44.000 N   33.134 W   06GA350_1
    21624       151     69026   2000.05.20       45.829 N   31.596 W   06GA350_1
    21669       152     69027   2000.05.20       45.333 N   33.151 W   06GA350_1
    21688       153     69028   2000.05.29       44.616 N   35.967 W   06GA350_1
    21612       298     69056   2001.05.19       44.939 N   34.535 W   06MT050_1
    22005       299     69057   2001.05.20       45.881 N   31.579 W   06MT050_1
    22335       300     69058   2001.05.20       46.303 N   29.886 W   06MT050_1
    15396       301     69054   2001.05.21       46.612 N   33.159 W   06MT050_1
    15398       302     69055   2001.05.19       45.308 N   33.150 W   06MT050_1

First two floats, type R1-PALACE, were deployed Spring 1998. Next three, type APEX, were deployed June 1999. Each float carries a SeaBird CTD sensor module. The floats drift at nominal 1500m depth, surfacing every 15 days to telemeter profile data via Service ARGOS satellites. The first batches did have a creep problem in that they slowly moved up.

The data collected here represents the subsurface drift from one profile to another. Each profile-location appears in the file twice, as a start and as an end of a drift segment.

Link to the webpage for this experiment maintained by Webb Research.