Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-223-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-223-2017
Research article
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29 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 29 Mar 2017

On the mesoscale monitoring capability of Argo floats in the Mediterranean Sea

Antonio Sánchez-Román, Simón Ruiz, Ananda Pascual, Baptiste Mourre, and Stéphanie Guinehut

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In this work we investigate the capability of the Argo array in the Mediterranean Sea to capture mesoscale circulation structures (diameter of around 150 km). To do that we conduct several experiments to simulate different spatial sampling configurations of the Argo array in the basin. Results show that the actual Argo array in the Mediterranean (2° × 2°) might be enlarged until a spatial resolution of nearly 75 × 75 km (450 floats) in order to capture the mesoscale signal.