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The Argo Poland is a component of global array of temperature/salinity profiling Argo floats.

The Argo array amounts to 4000 floats at present. About 800 new floats are deployed per year (including circa 250 in frame of the Euro-Argo).

The data come from battery-powered autonomous floats that spend most of their life drifting at depth where they are stabilised by being neutrally buoyant at the "parking depth" pressure by having a density equal to the ambient pressure and a compressibility that is less than that of sea water. Satellites determine the position of the floats when they come to surface, and receive the data transmitted by the floats.

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The Polish Argo programme is carried out by the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN). Since 2009 our Institute has deployed forty-one floats. Twenty-three of them were launched in the Nordic Seas from the board of r/v Oceania and three in the same region aboard r/v Horyzont II. Since November 2016, also aboard r/v Oceania, IOPAN has launched fifteen floats in the Baltic Sea.

In 2022, the Argo Poland Consortium was founded, which includes:

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Institute of Oceanology PAN
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Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte
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Institute of Geophysics PAN


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