Proceedings
of the seventh meeting of the TAO Implementation Panel
Hotel Golf Intercontinental
Abidjan, Ivory Coast 11-13 November 1998
Edited by
Michael J. McPhaden
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, Washington 98115-0070
January 1999
Table
of contents
- Executive
summary
- Summary
of current conditions
- National
reports
- 3.1 United
States
- 3.1.1 TAO
Array Configuration
- 3.1.2 TAO
Array Annual Operating Plan
- 3.1.3 Transition
to TRITON
- 3.1.4 Fishing
Vandalism and Data Return
- 3.1.5 Velocity
Measurements
- 3.1.6 ORSTOM/PMEL
Salinity Measurements
- 3.1.7 TAO/ARM
Shortwave Radiation Measurements
- 3.1.8 TAO/TRMM
Rainrate Measurements
- 3.1.9 Moored
Bio-Optical and Chemical
- 3.1.10
Data and Information Dissemination
- 3.1.11
NOAA Perspectives on the ENSO Observing System
- 3.2 Japan
- 3.2.1 Tropical
Ocean Climate Study (TOCS)
- 3.2.2 Status
of TRITON
- 3.2.3 Future
TRITON Plans
- 3.2.4 Data
Dissemination
- 3.2.5 JAMSTEC
Outreach in 1997-1998 related to Fishing Activity
- 3.2.6 International
Coordination
- 3.3 France
- 3.4 Taiwan
- 3.5 India
- Program
status reports
- 4.1 PIRATA
Status Report
- 4.2 Tropical
Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
- 4.3 Recent
Developments Relevant to TAO at Meetings of the CLIVAR Upper Ocean
- 4.4 Progress
with the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
- Science
reports
- 5.1 Seasonal
Forecasting at ECMWF
- 5.2 Basin-Wide
Adjustment of Mass and Warm Pool Displacement During the 1997-98
El Niņo-La Niņa
- 5.3 Impact
of TAO vs. ERS Wind Stresses On Simulations of the Tropical Pacific
Ocean During the 1993-1998 Simulated by the OPA OGCM
- 5.4 Genesis
and Evolution of the 1997-98 El Niņo
- 5.5 Rectification
of the MJO into the ENSO Cycle
- 5.6 Yoshida
Jet Detected in JAMSTEC Subsurface Current Moorings
- 5.7 Remotely-Forced
Effects on Currents and Water Properties in the Coastal Upwelling
System Off Northern and Central Chile
- 5.8 TRITON
Salinity Measurements
- 5.9 SSS Changes
in the Western Tropical Pacific During the 1996 La Ni¤a and 1997
El Niņo Period: The Present ORSTOM-TSG Network in the Pacific
- 5.10 Observing
Tropical SSS in the Future by Integrating TAO and Satellite Data
- 5.11 Estimating
Rainfall in the Tropics Using the Fractional Time Raining and New
Efforts at Obtaining Minute Resolution Rainfall Data in the Pacific
- 5.12 Easterly
Waves and Convective Organization in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific
ITCZ
- 5.13 Relationships
between the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific El Niņo: Predictability of
African Climate
- 5.14 Upper
Layer Hydrology and Circulation Variability in the Western Equatorial
Atlantic
- 5.15 The Barrier
Layer in the Atlantic Ocean
- 5.16 Formation
and Spreading of Arabian Sea High-Salinity Water Mass
- Recommendations
- 6.1 IOC Support
of Efforts to Reduce Vandalism of Oceanographic Equipment at Sea
- 6.2 Thermosalinograph
Pilot Project
- 6.3 Salinity
Remote Sensing from Satellite
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