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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). What is Argo? Argo is an international programme that collects information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and down to 6 000 metres deep. Each instrument, called float, spends almost all its lifetime below the surface.
The Polish Argo programme is carried out by the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN). Since 2009 our Institute has deployed fifty floats. Twenty-eight 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 ninteen floats in the Baltic Sea. In 2022, the Argo Poland Consortium was founded, which includes: |
 | Institute of Oceanology PAN |
 | Polish Naval Academy of the Heroes of Westerplatte |
 | Institute of Geophysics PAN |
