BulArgo
A national marine research infrastructure for in situ observation in Black Sea based on autonomous profiling floats as a Bulgarian component of the Euro-Argo network. BulArgo data are freely available from Euro-Argo web site
Euro-Argo
The European contribution to the International Argo Programme for in situ ocean observations is coordinated by Euro Argo ERIC, a distributed Research Infrastructure that organizes and federates national Argo contributions at the European level
Argo
Argo is an international program that measures water properties across the world’s ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and a mid-water level
BulArgo News
The Bulgarian Argo fleet in the Black Sea has collected more than 4,000 profiles, including over 2,300 profiles of dissolved oxygen to date
Since establishment of the BulArgo program, Bulgaria deployed 22 Argo floats in the Black Sea Fig. 1. This is 40% of 55 Argo floats ever deployed in the Black Sea with the support of European Union and other countries – Fig. 2.
Fig. 1. Deployment of BulArgo floats in the Black Sea per years
Fig. 2. Number of Argo floats deployed in the Black Sea
From 2011, when the first BulArgo float was deployed till now 4046 CTD and 2333 Dissolved Oxygen profiles have been collected by Bulgarian Argo floats.
