Argo

Over the past several decades, the US has been the primary funder for ocean observation programs.

So to pull one out that Frederick mentioned earlier, the weather forecasting that you get, the 10-day weather forecast, exists because of a program called Argo.

And Argo is 4,000 floats that sit deep in the ocean and every 10 days they rise up to the surface and give us a snapshot of what the ocean temperature looks like.

And that snapshot is what allows weather forecasters to predict the atmosphere beyond five days.

Without the ocean, you basically can't do that because the ocean, again, is this memory piece.

Yeah, there's a lot of opportunity.

The coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is pretty extensive compared to other provinces of Canada.

So, of course, we do have an advantage here, taking advantage of the boats that are coming in and out of St. John's Harbour to deploy those Argo floats that Brad mentioned.

What can you tell us about, like, what is the density of observation subsurface theory? for the ocean do we even have what is it because i think dan dan feel free to chime in but like one of the biggest things we don't know about the weather is what's happening underneath the ocean when it comes to computer modeling on the weather side i'm wondering is it the same on your side too

Yeah, so I couldn't give you like a number right off the top of my head unless I looked up how many Argo floats are currently deployed globally.

But there are a ton of Argo floats that allow us to get subsurface samples.

And then that's like the broader network.

And then there's the project specific things where, you know, institutions like Rutgers or the Navy might deploy a fleet of gliders.

It's a little bit of both.

So if we have like a storm, you know, like Hurricane Ida in the Gulf, like We had a bunch of gliders from collaborators that were in that area.

We had a bunch of Argo floats and buoys that we could readily analyze what was happening.