To San Diego, via Chile
28 February 2007
To San Diego, via Chile
NIWA’s 28-metre research vessel Kaharoa sets sail shortly to deploy more ocean-profiling Argo floats across the Pacific. The voyage, under charter to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego) and the University of Washington (Seattle), will take almost five months. This is NIWA’s fifth Argo mission.
Argo floats measure currents, temperature, and salinity in the upper ocean. The data are used by climate and ocean researchers, and operational weather and climate centres, around the world.