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Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic - Argo Floats
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SIMBA_Argo_Floats
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Argo profiling floats were deployed during the SIMBA cruise. A total of 23 floats were deployed along the cruise track from Punta Arenas to the Bellingshausen Sea. These floats drifted at a depth of 1000 meters; at 10-day intervals, each float sank to a depth of 2000 m and then ascended to the sea surface over a period of approximately 6 hours, collecting a CTD profile as it ascended. Many of ...
 Purpose: The main goal of this work was to begin to extend the Argo array into ice-covered waters and to sample the high-latitude water column below sea ice under winter conditions. An analogous array of 23 floats, also supplied by the University of Washington, were deployed in the Antarctic south of Australia during the same time frame from the vessel Aurora Australis.
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Project ID: SIMBA Drift Station Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
2007-09-01
Stop Date:
2007-10-31
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