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)

Data

Home site: SPICE>Data home>SECARGO

SECARGO-1 XBT/APEX deployment (June 2008)	SECARGO Cruise (N/O ALIS, May 2010)

Argo float deployments

Trip1: 28/06/2008 (map; float WMO 5901880(UW5385) 5901881(UW5388) 5901882(UW5389) 5901883(UW5390) 5901884(UW5391))

XBT deployments

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
Trip 7: 04/04/2011

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