TAO Information
"...the crowning achievement of TOGA
was the development of the Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean (TAO)
array..."
EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 78(1), 7
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The TAO
array (renamed the TAO/TRITON array on 1 January 2000)
consists of approximately 70 moorings in the Tropical
Pacific Ocean, telemetering oceanographic and
meteorological data to shore in real-time via the Argos
satellite system.
The array
is a major component of the El Niño/Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) Observing System, the Global Climate
Observing System (GCOS) and the Global Ocean Observing
System (GOOS).
Support
is provided primarily by the United States (National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and Japan (Japan
Agency for Marine-earth Science and TEChnology) with
additional contributions from France (Institut de recherche
pour le developpement). |
Technical Information.
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Field Operations.
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