FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI A BGC-Argo Guide: Planning, Deployment, Data Handling and Usage BT AF Bittig, Henry C. Maurer, Tanya L. Plant, Joshua N. Schmechtig, Catherine Wong, Annie P. S. Claustre, Hervé Trull, Thomas W. Udaya Bhaskar, T. V. S. Boss, Emmanuel Dall’Olmo, Giorgio Organelli, Emanuele Poteau, Antoine Johnson, Kenneth S. Hanstein, Craig Leymarie, Edouard Le Reste, Serge Riser, Stephen C. Rupan, A. Rick Taillandier, Vincent Thierry, Virginie Xing, Xiaogang AS 1:1,2;2:3;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:2;7:6;8:7;9:8;10:9;11:2;12:2;13:3;14:6;15:2;16:10;17:5;18:5;19:2;20:10;21:11; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:PDG-REM-RDT-SIIM;17:;18:;19:;20:PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH;21:; C1 Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Rostock, Germany Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States UMS 3455, OSU Ecce-Terra, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), Ministry of Earth Science, Hyderabad, India School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States Plymouth Marine Laboratory, National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Ifremer, CNRS, IRD, IUEM, University of Brest, Brest, France State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China C2 IOW, GERMANY UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE MBARI, USA CNRS, FRANCE UNIV WASHINGTON, USA CSIRO, AUSTRALIA INCOIS, INDIA UNIV MAINE US, USA PML, UK IFREMER, FRANCE SIO, CHINA SI BREST SE PDG-REM-RDT-SIIM PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH UM LOPS IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Ifremer UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 5.247 TC 71 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00512/62344/66607.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00512/62344/66608.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00512/62344/66609.xlsx LA English DT Article DE ;ocean observation;ocean biogeochemical cycles;sensors;carbon cycle;ocean optics;best practices;argo AB The Biogeochemical-Argo program (BGC-Argo) is a new profiling-float-based, ocean wide, and distributed ocean monitoring program which is tightly linked to, and has benefited significantly from, the Argo program. The community has recommended for BGC-Argo to measure six additional properties in addition to pressure, temperature and salinity measured by Argo, to include oxygen, pH, nitrate, downwelling light, chlorophyll fluorescence and the optical backscattering coefficient. The purpose of this addition is to enable the monitoring of ocean biogeochemistry and health, and in particular, monitor major processes such as ocean deoxygenation, acidification and warming and their effect on phytoplankton, the main source of energy of marine ecosystems. Here we describe the salient issues associated with the operation of the BGC-Argo network, with information useful for those interested in deploying floats and using the data they produce. The topics include float testing, deployment and increasingly, recovery. Aspects of data management, processing and quality control are covered as well as specific issues associated with each of the six BGC-Argo sensors. In particular, it is recommended that water samples be collected during float deployment to be used for validation of sensor output. PY 2019 PD AUG SO Frontiers In Marine Science SN 2296-7745 PU Frontiers Media SA VL 6 IS 502 UT 000482486100001 DI 10.3389/fmars.2019.00502 ID 62344 ER EF