Argo Network Real Time Locations (Feature Service)

Argo floats' latest and deployment locations: one layer to represent deployment location of the floats, the second one contains the latest location of each float, according to the data transmitted to the Global Data Assembly Centres (GDAC).

Argo is a global network of more than 3000 free-drifting robots that measure temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean, with all data being sent to satellites passing overhead and then made publicly available within hours after collection.

Main Benefits:

     - Improve Ocean and Climate forecasting

     - Understand ocean-atmosphere interactions

     - Predict seasonal to decadal climate variability

Argo improves maps of the distribution of the heat energy in the ocean and, as a consequence, improves forecasting of the development (track and intensity) of sever weather systems. Sever weather systems are driven by convection and the transfer of water vapour from the ocean to the atmosphere. Hurricanes (e.g. Katrina, Gulf of Mexico) gain strength when passing over positive temperature anomaly areas and decay over low temperature anomaly regions. Argo, an old dream of oceanographers, is becoming the ocean's climate warning system for the benefits of humankind. 

Datasets available for download

• Deployment_LocationsFeature Layer

  Layer 0 via ArcGIS REST API

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• Deployment_Locations (Explore)HTML

  Explore Deployment_Locations on ArcGIS Hub

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• Latest_LocationsFeature Layer

  Layer 1 via ArcGIS REST API

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• Latest_Locations (Explore)HTML

  Explore Latest_Locations on ArcGIS Hub

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• Argo
• argo
• buoy
• float
• global
• goos
• ocean
• oceanops
• robot
• salinity
• temperature

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (54%)
• Maturity Level 2 (69%)
• Maturity Level 3 (44%)
• Maturity Level 4 (30%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (0%)

Field	Value
Last Updated	March 24, 2026, 21:08 (UTC)
Created	March 24, 2026, 21:04 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
Title Title for the Dataset.	Argo Network Real Time Locations (Feature Service)
Description A description of the dataset.	Argo floats' latest and deployment locations: one layer to represent deployment location of the floats, the second one contains the latest location of each float, according to the data transmitted to the Global Data Assembly Centres (GDAC). Argo is a global network of more than 3000 free-drifting robots that measure temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and velocity of the upper ocean, with all data being sent to satellites passing overhead and then made publicly available within hours after collection. Main Benefits:      - Improve Ocean and Climate forecasting      - Understand ocean-atmosphere interactions      - Predict seasonal to decadal climate variability Argo improves maps of the distribution of the heat energy in the ocean and, as a consequence, improves forecasting of the development (track and intensity) of sever weather systems. Sever weather systems are driven by convection and the transfer of water vapour from the ocean to the atmosphere. Hurricanes (e.g. Katrina, Gulf of Mexico) gain strength when passing over positive temperature anomaly areas and decay over low temperature anomaly regions. Argo, an old dream of oceanographers, is becoming the ocean's climate warning system for the benefits of humankind.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Argo argo buoy float global goos ocean oceanops robot salinity temperature
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.	0.08
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2019-04-03
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).	public
License License used to access the dataset.	License not specified
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://climat.esri.ca/datasets/oceanops::argo-network-real-time-locations-feature-service
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	OceanOPS
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?	OceanOPS
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?	[email protected]
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.	OceanOPS
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.
Author Author of the dataset.	OceanOPS
Author Email Email of the author.
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.	2020-11-25

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.	ba0f32624e1d42caa907c6d6eb0414fb
Language Language(s) of the dataset	English
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.	https://climat.esri.ca/datasets/oceanops::argo-network-real-time-locations-feature-service
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	None
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.	Unified: Argo Network Real Time Locations (Feature Service)
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.	Argo Network Real Time Locations (Feature Service)
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.	OceanOPS
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

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Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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