April 10 (UPI) --The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using $2.7 million in federal funding to deploy a new data-gathering device that will improve measurements of ocean temperatures ...

Scientists from around the globe are gearing up for a research cruise off New Zealand, where they will examine the mysteries of the deep ocean using a suite of high-tech instruments. Scheduled May ...

Across the world’s oceans, a fleet of autonomous instruments known as Argo floats are drifting with the ocean currents. These floats are part of the Argo program, a network of profiling floats that ...

NOAA and partners have joined together to launch approximately 100 new Argo floats across the Atlantic ocean to collect data that supports ocean, weather and climate research and prediction. These ...

Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica.

Since the 1990s, scientists have deployed thousands of robotic floats equipped with temperature and salinity sensors in the ocean as part of an international effort called the Argo program. These ...