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The amount of data readings, or profiles, made by Argo is nearly four times the number made before Argo's start 20 years ago

Argo Program Achieves Milestone with Two Million Ocean Measurements
Transformative network has enabled sweeping view of large-scale, long-duration changes in all the world’s oceans

Winters Becoming Shorter in Mountainous Western U.S.
Using new method, a study by Scripps Oceanography researcher finds that snowpack is melting earlier in the year

Phytoplankton

Researchers discover new region of iron limitation in ocean
Scientists find that iron-limited areas extend below surface-level phytoplankton communities

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