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FIGURE 5 | Global map of all (A) BGC-Argo floats, and (B) Deep-Argo floats, as of July 2020. The locations shown are the launch location of the floats. [Source: 
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contains all the measured intermediate BGC parameters as well as 
the computed ocean state variables. Moreover, a synthetic profile 
file (the S-profile file) is generated by the GDACSs to align the CTD 
and BGC parameters obtained with different vertical sampling 
schemes (Bittig et al., 2020). This vertical interpolation step is 
necessary because measurements from multiple BGC sensors are 
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not always aligned during onboard processing by the floats. The 
S-profile file contains both the CTD and BGC data (without the 
intermediate parameters) and is a good product for users who 
want to study these BGC parameters as co-located measurements. 
Lastly, to facilitate the development of experimental sensors 
and to satisfy the requirement that all measurements from a float 
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