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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11346

30 June 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) oceans
Better ocean data fund

Brussels, 29/06/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 29 June, the European Commission announced that last week it had awarded a grant of almost €4 million to the European research infrastructure for observing the oceans. The funds will be used to add 150 Argo floats to the project's portfolio in the next two years.

Argo floats measure and transmit data on ocean temperature and salinity. As such, they are the main tools for providing long-term high quality information on the ocean. They are...

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