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Positions of Argo floats 4 May 2010

Map of the Argo float positions on 4 May 2010 in worlds oceans.

The 3,255 Argo floats are well spread around the globe, collecting temperature and salinity data from the upper 2,000 m of the ocean.

These data were collected and made freely available by the International Argo Project and the national programmes that contribute to it.

www.argo.ucsd.edu, www.ocean-ops.org

Argo is a pilot programme of the Global Ocean Observing System.

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