NOAA/AOML houses the US Argo data assembly center to process data from profiling floats and the GOOS center to process temperature profile data from XBTs among other sources.
A major goal of these efforts is to provide sufficient data for the description and analysis of the state of the ocean and for couple numerical models to provide seasonal to interannual forecasts.
Quarterly reports (starting in Q1 Jan-Mar, 2005) assessing how well the heat storage estimates are satisfying the GOOS/GCOS (1999) requirement for hydrographic measurements. Go