Abstract
The scientific mission of the project ARGO is to build a real-time, high-resolution monitoring system for upper and middle layers of the world ocean, which consists of Argo floats, satellite-communication systems, and information-processing technologies. The ocean monitoring system will obtain the high quality data of upper and middle layers of the world ocean almost simultaneously with very high space-time resolution. That will help us to understand large scale, on going oceanic variations. An easy-touse method of determining launching points to deploy floats drifting with certain average spacing is proposed. Counting the number of floats drifting within a certain radius from the last launching point, this method determines the next launching point successively. It is easy to adopt this method even on cruise tracks curved or broken.
