Argo Float Movies

Trajectories: Click here for a series of movies illustrating the trajectories of Argo floats in various ocean basins. Last updated 8th Feb. 2012

Argo floats on a rotating globe.

An artist's impression of the drift of a profiling float. 25.4MByte. This avi file was made available by the avi wizards at Scripps Inst of Oceanography. This version includes a sound track.

As above without sound. 12.8MByte. This is the same as argo.avi above, except that the sound track has been stripped out (by Howard Freeland).

Deployment of a float from a C-130 aircraft: . This is displayed at 320x240 resolution and the file is 8.3M Bytes. For slow connections, click here for a zipped version of the same movie air_la2.zip which is 6.2MBytes.

The images of the air drop were derived from video footage generously made available to Argo by Webb Research, and digitised through the offices of Dr Stan Wilson, Deputy Chief Scientist, NOAA. Thanks to Tom Silva at WHOI for the Argo animation, and Webb Research for the float air drop.

Argo Float Trajectory Movies 

Last update: 8th Feb. 2012

For the following movies of float motion in the oceans, the dot indicates the "current" location of the float as given by the date counter, and the tail is a previous history, typically 80 or 100 days.

Other movies or an update can be made on request.

Floats in the Arctic Ocean 1.35 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the whole Atlantic Ocean 17.0 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the Bering Sea 4.1 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the whole Pacific Ocean 24.5 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the vicinity of the Drake Passage 8.3 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the Gulf of Alaska 9.5 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the whole Indian Ocean 22.1 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the North Atlantic Ocean 19.8 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the North Pacific Ocean 15.0 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the North-West Atlantic Ocean 12.0 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the Southern Ocean 27.8 MByte. Tail = 80 days
Floats in the Global Ocean 28.0 MByte. Tail = 100 days
A movie made specifically at request of Elizabeth Steffen 460 kByte. Tail = 100 days