On The Design and Implementation of Argo A Global Array of Profiling Floats
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چکیده
II. THE SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE GLOBAL FLOAT ARRAY...........................................................4 A. THE GODAE/CLIVAR CONTEXT ................................................................................................................................... 4 B. COMBINING PROFILING FLOATS AND ALTIMETRY FOR DIAGNOSIS OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM ................................. 5 C. INITIALIZATION AND CONSTRAINT OF OPERATIONAL MODELS..................................................................................... 6 III. THE DESIGN OF ARGO ..............................................................................................................................................8 A. THE EVOLUTION OF ARGO FROM THE EXISTING UPPER OCEAN THERMAL NETWORK............................................... 8 B. USING TOPEX/POSEIDON ALTIMETRIC DATA IN THE DESIGN OF ARGO .............................................................. 11 C. USING ARGO TO MEASURE ABSOLUTE PRESSURE IN THERMOCLINE AND INTERMEDIATE WATERS...................... 17 D. DESIGNING ARGO TO MONITOR CLIMATE SIGNALS...................................................................................................... 18 E. THE NEEDS FOR ARGO IN TESTING AND CONSTRAINING OCEAN AND COUPLED MODELS OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 21 F. OTHER ELEMENTS OF A COMPREHENSIVE OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM.................................................................... 25 IV. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ARGO...................................................................................................................25
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