The official Argo homepage is here. Here you find a more detailed description of the function of Argo drifters and here you can download drifter measurements.
Gliders are one tool for measuring temperature and salinity on vertical transects (actually not a purely vertical transect). Some gliders can go below 1000 m. The disadvantage of a glider is that it needs considerable horizontal space available straight ahead of his direction of motion.
A nice explanation and applications are given here and here.
This is the homepage of the global scientific glider community.
You can download the original data that goes into the temperature fields from: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/OC5/wod13/getgeodata.pl?Depth=O&WorldOcean.x=612&WorldOcean.y=192. The data includes:
There are a lot of publications that use the global temperature data. Documentation of the entire database is provided by NOAA.
A good representation of the temperature in the deep ocean can be seen in this North-South section. All the small points are observations. You can see the colder temperatures in the deep South Atlantic associated with the Antarctic Bottom Water versus the temperatures on the deep North Atlantic from the North Atlantic Deep Water.