Argo Poland

Argo Poland is a component of global array of temperature/salinity profiling Argo floats. Argo is an international programme that collects information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and down to 6 000 metres deep. Each instrument, called float, spends almost all its lifetime below the surface. The Argo array amounts to 4000 floats at present. About 800 new floats are deployed per year (including circa 250 in frame of the Euro-Argo). The Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAS) represents Poland in the international Argo programme. Since 2009, the Institute has deployed fifty-three Argo floats. In 2022, the Argo Poland Consortium was founded. Besides Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAS), the Argo Poland Consortium includes Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences (IG PAS) and Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte. Institute of Geophysics (IG PAS) contributes to the Argo Poland programme by experimental use of Argo floats in Hornsund fjord, Svalbard.

Financial support: The Argo-Poland project is funded by the Polish Minister of Education and Science [project number 2022/WK/04] Project webpage: https://www.iopan.gda.pl/hydrodynamics/po/Argo/argo.html