TOGA COARE: the complex ocean-atmosphere response experiment

Abstract

The scientific goals of COARE are to decribe and understand; 1) the principal processes responsible for the coupling of the ocean and the atmosphere in the western Pacific warm-pool system; 2) the principal atmospheric processes that organize convection in the warm-pool region; 3) the oceanic response to combined buoyancy and wind-stress forcing in the western Pacific warm-pool region; and 4) the multiple-scale interactions that extend the oceanic and atmospheric influence of the western Pacific warm-pool system to other regions and vice versa. -from Authors