Nong et al. 
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT 
Che datasets presented in this study can be found in online 
repositories. The names of the _repository/repositories 
and accession number(s) can be found in the article/ 
supplementary material. 
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS 
AW, SW, SR, SP, SH, DR, JG, GJ, KM, DM, MS, TB, JB, FM, TC, 
GM, CC, XA, NP, IY, PB, and SG contributed to the writing of 
the manuscript. The remaining authors provided figures, data, 
and comments. 
FUNDING 
AW, SR, and other scientists at the University of Washington 
(UW) were supported by the US Argo Program through the 
NOAA Grant NA150AR4320063 to the Joint Institute for the 
Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) at the UW. 
SW and other scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic 
[nstitution (WHOI) were supported by the US Argo Program 
through the NOAA Grant NA190AR4320074 (CINAR/WHOI 
Argo). The Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s role in 
Argo was supported by the US Argo Program through 
the NOAA Grant NA150AR4320071 (CIMEC). Euro-Argo 
scientists were supported by the Monitoring the Oceans and 
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