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ALAMO

The Air-Launched Autonomous Micro Observer (ALAMO) is a versatile profiling float that can be launched from an aircraft to make temperature and salinity observations of the upper ocean for over a year with high temporal sampling.  Similar in dimensions and weight to an airborne expendable bathythermograph (AXBT), but with the same capabilities as Argo profiling floats.  It also can host other sensors such as optics and waves.

ALAMO

Related Publications

Jayne, Steven B., Owens, W. Brechner, Robbins, Pelle E., Ekholm, Alexander K., Bogue, Neil M. and Sanabia, Elizabeth R., The Air-Launched Autonomous Micro Observer, American Meteorological Society, April 19, 2022.

Jayne, Steven B. and Bogue, Neil M., Air-Deployable Profiling Floats, Oceanography, September 2, 2017.

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