Florent Gasparin
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About
Florent Gasparin is a leading physical oceanographer whose research centers on the global ocean observing system, climate variability, and the role of the deep ocean in Earth’s energy balance. His work is instrumental in advancing the Argo program—a global array of autonomous profiling floats—and its ambitious evolution into OneArgo by 2030, which aims to expand coverage from the upper ocean to the full ocean depth. Gasparin’s major contributions include demonstrating how Deep Argo floats can observe the entire ocean volume, revealing that anomalously warm and fresh waters formed near Antarctica are spreading northward through the abyssal ocean—a critical process in understanding climate change and sea-level rise. His highly cited 2023 paper (24 citations) on observing the full ocean volume and his 2025 synthesis on the urgency of OneArgo (13 citations) underscore his impact on shaping the future of ocean monitoring. Gasparin’s work directly informs how scientists and policymakers track heat uptake, freshwater redistribution, and the ocean’s role in mitigating anthropogenic warming, making him a key voice in the global push for sustained, comprehensive ocean observation.
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- 1Observing the full ocean volume using Deep Argo floats24 citations · 2023
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