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Table 1 Inventory of Deep NINJA floats used in this study including information on the deployment and total number of observed profiles

From: Deep-float salinity data synthesis for deep ocean state estimation: method and impact

Serial no.

Date of deployment

Date of the last observation

Area of deployment

Position of deployment

No. of profiles

1

2012/8/29

2012/8/30

Subarctic, North Pacific

40° 40.00′ N, 114° 46.18′ E

1

2

2012/8/29

2012/8/29

Subarctic, North Pacific

40° 40.00′ N, 114° 46.18′ E

16

3

2012/12/19

2013/5/31

Off the Adélie Coast, Antarctica

60° 00.62′ S, 139° 56.12′E

9

4

2012/12/5

2012/12/5

South of NZ, Southern Ocean

56° 59.87′ S, 173° 59.42′ E

25

5

2012/12/17

2013/7/14

Off the Adélie Coast, Antarctica

62° 00.38′ S, 137° 00.42′ E

10

6

2012/12/16

2014/8/22

Off the Adélie Coast, Antarctica

62°45.73′ S, 143° 36.05′ E

23

7

2013/7/17

2013/7/17

Subtropical, North Pacific

30° 03.91′ N, 144° 58.09′ E

33

8

2014/3/6

2014/3/27

Off the Adélie Coast, Antarctica

63° 40.55′ S, 148° 35.65′ E

3

9

2014/3/7

2014/3/7

Off the Adélie Coast, Antarctica

59° 14.34′ S, 150° 08.85′ E

23

11

2014/1/19

2014/1/19

Off the Budd Coast, Antarctica

60° 03.50′ S, 109° 53.32′ E

10

12

2014/1/22

2014/1/22

Off the Budd Coast, Antarctica

62° 00.42′ S, 110° 00.19′ E

5

13

2014/1/27

2014/1/27

Off the Budd Coast, Antarctica

64° 15.90′ S, 107° 42.00′ E

24

14

2014/1/24

2014/1/24

Off the Budd Coast, Antarctica

64° 05.36′ S, 109° 51.01′ E

40

15

2014/12/6

2014/12/6

Off the Budd Coast, Antarctica

59° 59.96′ S, 109° 51.92′ E

43

16

2016/1/31

2016/1/31

Western Indian Ocean

29° 59.98′ S, 52° 32.01′ E

18

17

2016/2/2

2016/2/2

Western Indian Ocean

40° 41.49′ S, 45° 54.43′ E

20

18

2016/3/2

2016/3/2

Subtropical, North Pacific

29° 56.31′ N, 147° 27.26′ E

12