These data were collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it. (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu, http://argo.jcommops.org). The Argo Program is part of the Global Ocean Observing System.
Abstract
Argo data-management assigns DOIs to its documents and datasets for two main objectives:
1. Citation: in a publication, the DOI is efficiently tracked by bibliographic surveys.
2. Traceability: the DOI is a direct and permanent link to the document or data set used in a publication.