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Overview
TAO/TRITON, PIRATA, and RAMA have been developed as multi-national efforts to provide data in real-time for climate research and forecasting. Major themes within this global tropical moored buoy array include:
- 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, and momentum fluxes are important determinants of the observed variability. Hence, Flux Reference Sites have been established in all three ocean basins to provide high quality long term measurements in key regions.
In addition, moored measurements of CO2 are available at selected locations to infer ocean-atmosphere exchanges of carbon dioxide, which is an important greenhouse gas. At two sites in the tropical Pacific, additional bio-optical measurements are available.
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.
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