Deployment plan: service plan

This service provides the list of floats planned for future deployment in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Arctic Ocean.

Those information are from the JCOMMOPS Argo Information Center deployment ftp file.

This service is used by the NA-ARC website on the Deployment plan panel and all deployments can be mapped on the Map panel.

At this time, no restrictions can be applied on this service, it returns the whole set of planned deployment.

Usage

Simply call the service without any other parameters:

?plan

Default output format

The default output is a JSON object with keys/values pairs where keys are a sorting id and values a JSON sub-object where keys are defined as bellow:

  • Serial_nb: Float serial number.
  • Internal_ID: AIC internal id.
  • wmo: Float pre-assigned WMO.
  • latitude: Latitude of the deployment.
  • longitude: Longitude of the deployment.
  • country: Country responsible for deploying the float.
  • program: Float's program.
  • fullname: PI responsible for the float.
  • email: PI's email responsible for the float.
  • ownership: Indicates whether the float is to be deployed into an Exclusive Economic Zone. If yes then a specific authorization will have to be requested.

More fields could be added based on user request.

Examples

Let's retrieve the deployment plan:

?plan

The first 2 records of this request can look like this:

Other output format

To specify an output format different than JSON, simply use the format restriction followed by: csv.

Coma Separated Values (CSV)

The csv output format will prompt the user to download a text file with a coma separated list of the results (after the commented header). Querying the API with the following:

?plan&format=csv

produces a file which contains something like: