The NASA/TOGA COARE Data Archive
| The NASA/TOGA COARE FTP Site |
TOGA COARE (Tropical Ocean
Global Atmospheres/Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment) is an
international research program investigating the scientific phenomena
associated with the interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean in the warm pool region of the western Pacific. The field
experiment phase of the program took place from November, 1992 through
February, 1993 and involved the deployment of oceanographic ships and buoys,
several ship and land based Doppler radars, multiple low and high level
aircraft equipped with Doppler radar and other airborne sensors, as well as a
variety of surface based instruments for in situ observations.
NASA/TOGA COARE data sets are archived either on an FTP site or in the DAAC tape library, depending on data volume. Both may be obtained through this web site. The FTP site is organized first by platform then by instrument:
Aircraft - instruments aboard NASA's high-altitude ER-2 and mid-altitude DC-8 aircraft
The NASA component of TOGA COARE, while contributing directly to overall COARE objectives, emphasized scientific objectives associated with the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), and NASA's Cloud and Radiation Program.
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