SECARGO Project
Objective
Test capabilities for monitoring the South Equatorial Current westward mass and heat transports in the upper 1000m into the Coral Sea. Argo profilers provide temperature-salinity relationship; XBT probes are deployed repeatedly from a commercial ship between Noumea and Honiara. A hydrographic cruise took place in May 2010.
Participants and support
- C. Maes (PI); S. Cravatte, D. Varillon, A. Ganachaud, W. Kessler, S. Riser, D. Swift, R. Lumpkin, G. Eldin, L. Gourdeau
- Support by IRD, the French GMMC (SECARGO) and LEFE-IDAO (Solwara). Collaboration LEGOS/Toulouse; LEGOS/IRD-Noumea and University of Washington (UW-Argo)
Descriptive (Coriolis/GMMC site)
Data
Home site: SPICE>Data home>SECARGO
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SECARGO-1 XBT/APEX deployment (June 2008) |
SECARGO Cruise (N/O ALIS, May 2010) |
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Argo float deployments
Trip1: 28/06/2008 (map; float WMO 5901880(UW5385) 5901881(UW5388) 5901882(UW5389) 5901883(UW5390) 5901884(UW5391))
XBT deployments
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Trip1: 28/06/2008
Trip2: 31/10/2008
Trip3: 27/02/2009
Trip4: 18/08/2009
Trip5: 17/02/2010
Trip 6: 22/11/2010
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Trip 7: 04/04/2011
Trip 8: 08/2011
Trip 9: 05/2012
Trip 10: 11/2012
Trip 11: 06/2013
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Data availability:
Data are available on the Coriolis data center
Plans
- 2 HR-XBT deployments/year (depending on probe availabilities)
- Regular Argo seeding; depending on current Argo density