. Catalogue of data. Change notice / World Data Center A, Oceanography. Oceanography TOGA TROPICAL OCEAN and GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE PROGRAMME TOGA Background A major component of the TOGA International Implementation Plan is the moni- toring of the global atmosphere and the upper layers of the three tropical oceans during the ten-year period of 1985-1994. Existing meteorological and oceano- graphic observation systems have been maintained and expanded by TOGA while new networks have been installed in key locations. These observations along with available historical data will provide a
. Catalogue of data. Change notice / World Data Center A, Oceanography. Oceanography TOGA TROPICAL OCEAN and GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE PROGRAMME TOGA Background A major component of the TOGA International Implementation Plan is the moni- toring of the global atmosphere and the upper layers of the three tropical oceans during the ten-year period of 1985-1994. Existing meteorological and oceano- graphic observation systems have been maintained and expanded by TOGA while new networks have been installed in key locations. These observations along with available historical data will provide a description of the ocean-climate system and its variability from sub-seasonal to interannual scales. TOGA Tropical Subsurface Data Centers The TOGA Tropical Subsurface Data Centre in Brest, France operates within the framework of both the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (lODE) system and the Joint lOC-WMO Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS). The Centre collects subsurface ocean observations for the tropical oceans (30°N-30°S) from the follov^dng sources: (1) tropical oceans observations from the IGOSS network; (2) additional vertical temperature pro- files from XBT's and from drifting or moored buoys with thermistor chains, not sent over the GTS; (3) time series of temperature and salinity at fixed depth from moored thermistor chains; (4) surface temperature and salinity data and vertical profiles of temperature and salinity from CTD's, bottle casts, and WCTD's; and (5) other subsurface ocean measurements from process-oriented intensive oceanographic observation projects in the tropical oceans. Initially, data are collected from radio transmissions, vdth fully digitized and quality controlled observations added vdth time. The subsurface thermal data described above are analyzed, and the Centre produces quality-controlled Level II-B data sets for the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans for the ten-year period (1985-1994). The Centre
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