US EditionFrance Launches Its First Ocean-Bottom Floats
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The French Institute of Research for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer) announced on Monday, February 2, that it had launched its first two floats of the Argo network in the North Atlantic. By measuring temperature, salinity or oxygen, the objective is to better understand the functioning of deep currents, the journey of carbon and the global warming of the ocean.
France is the third country in the world to design autonomous underwater instruments capable of operating at extreme depths to measure salinity, temperature, oxygen and pressure
After the United States and China, France is the third country in the world to design autonomous underwater instruments capable of operating at these extreme depths and measuring salinity, temperature, oxygen and pressure.
In France, the research institute for the exploitation of the sea began to deploy on Monday its first two floats that will explore the bottom of the oceans to determine their state of health. They are able to dive up to 6,000 meters deep.
This is the depth at which the new Argo Deep-6000 floats of the Ifremer are able to go autonomously by measuring many indicators in real time. The first two prototypes have successfully carried out several descents...
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