April 10 (UPI) --The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using $2.7 million in federal funding to deploy a new data-gathering device that will improve measurements of ocean temperatures ...

Scientists have crossed an important threshold in an international effort to deploy a global network of robotic instruments to monitor and investigate important changes in the world's oceans.

NOAA and partners have joined together to launch approximately 100 new Argo floats across the Atlantic ocean to collect data that supports ocean, weather and climate research and prediction. These ...

Scientists from around the globe are gearing up for a research cruise off New Zealand, where they will examine the mysteries of the deep ocean using a suite of high-tech instruments. Scheduled May ...

As the planet warms and land-based ice makes its way to the oceans, sea levels will rise, threatening islands and coastal regions. Climate scientists model potential changes into the future, but there ...

Across the world’s oceans, a fleet of autonomous instruments known as Argo floats are drifting with the ocean currents. These floats are part of the Argo program, a network of profiling floats that ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have deployed thousands of robotic floats equipped with temperature and salinity sensors in the ocean as part of an international effort called the Argo program. These ...