 |
Overview
TAO/TRITON, PIRATA, and RAMA comprise the global tropical moored buoy array, which is a multi-national effort to provide data in real-time for climate research and forecasting. The major phenomenological foci of the global tropical moored buoy array are:
- El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific
- The interhemispheric dipole mode, equatorial warm events, and hurricane activity in the Atlantic
- Intraseasonal variability and the monsoons in the Indian Ocean
Heat, moisture, momentum and buoyancy fluxes are important determinants of observed climate variability. All TAO/TRITON, PIRATA, and RAMA moorings provide data necessary to estimate a subset of these fluxes. In addition, specially instrumented Flux Reference Sites have been established in key regions of the tropics to provide high quality long term measurements of all surface fluxes. Moored measurements of CO2 are available at selected locations to infer ocean-atmosphere exchanges of carbon dioxide, which is an important greenhouse gas. Other sites support additional biological and chemical measurements for multi-disciplinary studies of biogeochemical cycles.
Click here to see a full list of the of organizations contributing to the collection of tropical moored buoy array data.
There are many related OceanSITES projects in other parts of the world ocean.
|
|
