Proceedings of the fifth meeting of the TAO Implementation Panel
National Institute of Oceanography Goa, India 18 - 21 November 1996

Edited by:
Linda J. Mangum
Timothy B. Wright
Michael J. McPhaden
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, Washington 98115-0070

Published by:
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
On behalf of the directorates of The Global Climate Observing System, The Global Ocean Observing System, The Climate Variability and Predictability Program .

  Table of contents

1. Summary

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2. Opening and purpose of the meeting
3. Summary of current conditions in the Tropical Pacific
4. National Reports
   1. United States
   2. Japan
   3. Korea
   4. Taiwan
   5. France
   6. India
   7. Indonesia
5. Program status reports
   1. The PIRATA Program: An Extension of the TAO Array in the Atlantic
   2. JMA Climate Observations, Analyses, and Forecasts
   3. U.S. Global Ocean Atmosphere Land System/Pan American Climate Studies (GOALS/PACS)
   4. Use of TAO Data in the NCEP Operational Model
   5. CLIVAR Upper Ocean Panel Report
   6. Ocean Rain Measurements for TRMM Validation
6. Science reports
   1. Surface and Subsurface Low-Frequency Variability in the Tropical Atlantic: One Necessity for Implementing the PIRATA Array
   2. An Optimized Design for a Moored Instrument Array in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean
   3. On the Physics of ENSO Displacement of the Pacific Warm Pool
   4. The Annual Cycle of SST in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, diagnosed in an ocean GCM
   5. Variability of Surface Equatorial Currents in the Warm Pool Region: A Quasi-2-Day Oscillation
   6. Observational Study on the New Guinea Coastal Current and Its Undercurrent
   7. Large Scale Sea Surface Height Variations of the India Ocean from TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter
   8. Dynamics of the Lakshadweep High and Low
   9. Upper-Ocean Circulation in the Indian Ocean, and Possible Feedbacks to the Atmosphere
   10. Seasonal-to-Interannual Variability in the Indian Ocean
   11. Uncertainties of ERS-1 Surface Winds Over the Arabian Sea
   12. Atmospheric Forcing and Upper Ocean Response to Monsoonal forcing in the Arabian Sea
   13. Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction During the First Transitions of Asian Summer Monsoon
7. Discussion and recommendations
8. Acknowledgements

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