Argo floats

UK’s new fleet of advanced robotic floats deployed as part of global Argo programme

An Argo float being deployed from the RRS Discovery as part of the RAPID expedition

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has successfully deployed the first of the UK’s new fleet of Biogeochemical (BGC) Argo profiling floats as part of the international Argo programme.

New fleet of advanced robotic floats to understand ocean health

A dark ocean surface littered with ice, an inhospitable and remote location

The ocean plays a vital role in sustaining life on Earth, regulating our climate and providing us with living resources, such as food. A new fleet of advanced robotic floats will provide data to understand the status of the ocean environment and its resources today, and for years to come.

NOC helps predict the monsoon

Monsoon

The NOC is to play a key role in a UK-India collaborative project to predict monsoon rainfall over India by studying ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal.