Argo work in the Coral Sea

1. Early work: Argo trajectories in the SW Pacific:
   (The Argo archive at http://www.usgodae.org shows 9 float trajectories in the region around NC. These give a crude representation of the flow at 1000m)
   1. Positions of all Argo floats as of 31 Jan 2005
   2. Individual trajectories from the usgodae website:
      5900092    093    127    129    571    575    576    607    608
   3. Trajectories combined    Net motion and speed    Above plots combined

2. Argo 5900911: Complete trajectory through 15 Feb 07   Through 16 Apr 07
   1. Position dots (details, over bathymetry):
      1. Near NC; mark speeds   
      2. Into Coral Sea   
      3. Passing Queensland Plateau   
      4. Virtual mooring west of the Queensland Plateau (to 16 Apr 07)
   2. 5900911 spent 7 months just behind the Queensland Plateau (about 1250m depth):
      1. Overview: bathymetry of the SW Pacific
      2. Surface and subsurface drift:
         1. All reported positions   
         2. Displacement vectors by time intervals   
         3. Surface and subsurface vectors (See below for updates)
      3. Zonal component (surface and subsurface):
         1. Whole trajectory   
         2. Detail near Queensland Plateau   
         3. Speeds
      4. Depths (etopo02) at reported positions: Whole track   Detail since June 06   Depth as a function of longitude
      5. T and S west of the Queensland Plateau:
         1. Temperature   (add 6 May 07 dive)   
         2. Salinity   
         3. Salinity(T,t)   
         4. T/S
      6. Corresponding plots from ORCA:
         1. Map showing Argo track and ORCA gridpoints   
         2. Temperature   
         3. Salinity   
         4. Salinity(T,t)
   3. Updates on 2 July 2007 (into the Gulf of Papua):   
      1. Surface and subsurface vectors   
      2. Trajectories with 5900576   
      3. Salinity
      4. Detail of 5900911 passing Osprey Reef

3. Other floats in the western Coral Sea
   1. 5900911 and 5900576 trajectories
   2. 5 floats have gone west of 150°E
   3. Detail (Gulf of Papua)
   4. 5900911 and 5901192 surface and subsurface vectors
      (Very different paths behind the Queensland Plateau)

4. Float tracks relevant to the SW Pacific:
   1. Some other floats relevant to Solwara (a partial collection)
   2. Argo 5901387 through Indispensable Strait
   3. All floats that ever entered the region west of 155°E, north of 20°S in the western Coral Sea
            (Collection of usgodae webpage trajectories)
   4. Check all floats that have ever entered the region: W of 155°E, N of 25°S, S of 7°S
      1. Net displacements and "speeds"
   5. Net displacements of the 10 floats deployed during Frontalis3

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