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Argo Floats Monitor Ocean pH and Carbon Dioxide
September 6, 2011 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Scientists can now remotely monitor the ocean’s changing chemistry with help from some of the five-foot-tall Argo floats that drift with deep ocean currents and transmit data via satellite back to land.


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