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BBC Inside Science
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The Argo Floats and the Oceans
It's an absorption spectrometer. It sucks in water, adds chemical reagents and measures stuff like color changes. The casing goes in the water on one of these arrays, such as the Argo array. And where are they distributed around the world? So the Argo floats aren't distributed across the world's oceans. They spend most of their time subsurface. There are gaps,. so currently it's difficult to deploy Argo floats in the southern oceans and in the Arctic because of ice or currents there. Other vehicles that we are also hoping to deploy on. Things like gliders, profiling floats with wings., which can actually glide in a direction you pre-program into them
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