Argo marine floats data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC)

Argo is an international program to observe the interior of the ocean with a fleet of profiling floats drifting in the deep ocean currents (<a href="https://argo.ucsd.edu">https://argo.ucsd.edu</a>). Argo GDAC is a dataset of 5 billion in situ ocean observations from 18.000 profiling floats (4.000 active) which started 20 years ago. Argo GDAC dataset is a collection of 18.000 NetCDF files. It is a major asset for ocean and climate science, a contributor to IOCCP reports.

Argo 项目是一项国际性观测海洋深层的计划，通过一支由浮标组成的舰队，在深海洋流中漂移以收集数据（详情请见<a href="https://argo.ucsd.edu">https://argo.ucsd.edu</a>）。Argo GDAC 数据集包含来自 18,000 个浮标（其中 4,000 个处于活跃状态）的 50 亿个现场海洋观测数据，该计划始于 20 年前。Argo GDAC 数据集由 18,000 个 NetCDF 文件组成，它是海洋和气候科学领域的一项重要资产，也是国际海洋环流和气候实验（IOCCP）报告的重要贡献者。