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Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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APPENDICES

A. MEMBERS OF THE TOGA PANEL

Richard T. Barber, 1987–90

Tim P. Barnett, 1984–86

Maurice Blackmon, 1987–90

Otis B. Brown, 1985–91

Antonio J. Busalacchi, 1989–96

Mark A. Cane, 1984–89

Robert E. Dickinson, 1994–96

Steven Esbensen, 1988–96

Rana A. Fine, 1990–94

David Halpern, 1990–96

D. Edmunds Harrison, 1988–90

Dennis L. Hartmann, 1990–96

Paul R. Julian, 1986–89

Eli J. Katz, 1984–86

Robert A. Knox, 1991–96

Ants Leetmaa, 1984–87, 1992–96

Roger Lukas, 1988–96

Pearn P. Niiler, 1987–90

S. George H. Philander, 1984–87

Eugene M. Rasmusson, 1984–86

Edward S. Sarachik, 1991–96, Chair 1992–96

Jagadish Shukla, 1984–92, Chair 1989–92

Joanne Simpson, 1991–94

Kevin E. Trenberth, 1984–87

John M. Wallace, 1985–90, Chair 1985–89

Ferris Webster, 1984–85, Chair 1984

Peter J. Webster, 1984–86

John A. Young, 1985–91

Stephen E. Zebiak, 1990–96

Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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B.

TOGA PRODUCTS

TOGA CD-ROMs. The 1994 edition consisted of 1985–1990 TOGA data. It included: sea surface temperature, sub-surface thermal data, surface marine observations, TAO data, pseudo-stress fields, cloud data, precipitation data, sea levels, and associated ECMWF analyses. The 6-CD package and Users' Guide available from:

User Services Office, MS300/320

JPL PO.DAAC

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109.

Climate Diagnostics Bulletin. Published monthly since 1982. Contains: (1) monthly means and anomalies in the tropics of sea surface temperature, outgoing long-wave radiation, winds, pressure, susbsurface ocean thermal structure, and sea level; (2) Forecast Forum; and (3) monthly means and anomalies in the extratropics of sea-level pressure, height of the 500-mb surface, and indices of “teleconnections”. Available from:

Climate Prediction Center

Attn: Climate Diagnostics Bulletin

NOAA/NWS/NCEP

World Weather Building, Room 605

5200 Auth Road

Washington, DC 20233.

The bulletin is also available on the World Wide Web from site (http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov).

Experimental Long Lead Forecast Bulletin. Published quarterly since 1992. Contains: experimental forecasts of tropical sea surface temperature, Southern Oscillation Index, rainfall, Atlantic storm activity, U.S. surface conditions and precipitation, and South African rainfall. Available from:

Climate Prediction Center, W/NMC51

Attn: Experimental Long Lead Bulletin

NOAA/NWS/NCEP

World Weather Building

5200 Auth Road

Washington, DC 20233.

Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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Monitor Climático. Published monthly since 1987 in Portugese. Contains: monthly precipitation in northeast Brazil, monthly position of the Atlantic Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, monthly means and anomalies of tropical sea surface temperature, monthly means and anomalies of tropical sea-level pressure, monthly mean and anomalies of outgoing long-wave radiation, and monthly means and anomalies of winds at heights of both 850 mb and 200 mb. Available from:

Divisão de Tempo e Clima

Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídrocos—FUNCEME

Av. Bezerra de Menezes, No 1.900—São Gerardo

Caixa Postal D-3221

Fortaleza, BRAZIL.

World Wide Web Products. A number of products have become available on the World Wide Web. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and descriptions are listed below. Web sites are subject to frequent change.

  • Climate Prediction Center of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction site (http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov) provides prediction products and data products relevant to ENSO and to its effects on U.S. climate.

  • Lamont-Doherty Climate Group site (http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu) provides data products, ENSO advisories, and forecasts of ENSO using the Zebiak-Cane model.

  • NOAA/Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory (PMEL) site (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/realtime.html) points to the latest data on surface and subsurface conditions in the tropical Pacific. It also provides tools for obtaining past TOGA TAO data. Also available from PMEL is a site (http://www.pmel.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html) that gives a good introduction to ENSO and its effects. The site also points to ENSO prediction information.

  • Global Change Master Directory site (http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov) guides users to climate data, including satellite data.

  • National Climatic Data Center site (http://www.ncdc.gov) contains guides to online data services and climatological products. It also points to the Climate Variations Bulletin, which documents monthly climate anomalies, mostly over the United States.

  • Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies site (http:/grads.iges.org/home.html) points to coupled-model forecasts of ENSO and other related sites.

Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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  • University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology site (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu) provides data from the Hawaii Sea Level Data Center and points to other online data centers.

  • NOAA Seasonal-to-Interannual site (http://www.noaa.gov/seasonal.html) gives NOAA's plans and rationale for predictions of seasonal-to-interannual climate variations.

  • NOAA Office of Global Programs site (http://www.noaa.gov/ogpl) points to El Niño information and the status of the International Research Institute (for Climate Prediction).

  • Florida State University site (http://coaps.fsu.edu) provides a guide to a number of meteorological and oceanographic servers.

  • University of Washington site (http://www.atmos.washington.edu) (choose “Local Resources”) provides precipitation climatologies of the tropics, a T-POP reference list, and pointers to other meteorological servers.

Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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C. ACRONYMS AND OTHER ABBREVIATIONS


ADCP

acoustic Doppler current profiler

ADEOS

Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (Japan)

AIREP

Aircraft En-Route Report

AMEX

Australian Monsoon Experiment

AOML

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (NOAA)

ARGOS

ARGOS Data Collection and Platform Location System (provided by France)

ATLAS

Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System

ATM

Atmospheric Sciences Division (NSF)

AVHRR

Advanced Very-High Resolution Radiometer


BSN

Basic Synoptic Network (of the World Weather Watch)


C

carbon

C&GC

Climate and Global Change (NOAA)

CAC

Climate Analysis Center, now CPC (NOAA)

CCCO

Committee for Climate Change and the Ocean

CEPEX

Central Pacific Experiment

CLIVAR

Study of Climate Variability and Predictability (WCRP)

CO2

carbon dioxide

COARE

Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment

CPC

Climate Prediction Center (NOAA)

CRC

Climate Research Committee (NRC)

CZCS

Coastal Zone Color Scanner


DMSP

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DOE

Department of Energy


ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

EMEX

Equatorial Monsoon Experiment

ENSO

El Niño and the Southern Oscillation

EOF

empirical orthogonal function

EPOCS

Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies

EqPac

Equatorial pacific Experiment

ERS

Earth Resources Satellite (ESA)

ESA

European Space Agency

EUC

Equatorial Undercurrent


FOCAL

Français Océan Climate Atlantique Equatorial (SEQUAL/FOCAL)

FGGE

First GARP Global Experiment

FUNCEME

Ceara Foundation for Meteorology and Hydrological Resources (Northeast Brazil)

ftp

file-transfer protocol

Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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GARP

Global Atmospheric Research Program

GATE

GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment

GCM

general-circulation model

GCOS

Global Climate Observing System

Geosat

Geodesy satellite (U.S. Navy)

GFDL

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA)

GISS

Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)

GOALS

Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System program

GOES

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GOOS

Global Ocean Observing System

GPCP

Global precipitation Climatology Project

GTS

Global Telecommunication System


ICSU

International Council of Scientific Unions

IFA

Intensive Flux Array

INDEX

Indian Ocean Experiment

IOC

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

IOP

intensive observation period

IRICP

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction

ITPO

International TOGA Project Office

IUGG

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics

ITCZ

Intertropical Convergence Zone


JGOFS

Joint Global Ocean Flux Study

JMA

Japan Meteorological Agency

JOC

Joint Organizing Committee (WCRP)

JPL

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JSC

Joint Scientific Committee (WCRP)


LIA

Line Islands Array


MDCRS

Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting Systems

MONEG

Monsoon Experimentation Group

MTPE

Mission to Planet Earth (NASA)


NASA

National Aeronuatics and Space Administration

NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NOAA)

NECC

North Equatorial Countercurrent

NMC

National Meteorological Center, now NCEP (NOAA)

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NORPAX

North Pacific Experiment

NOS

National Ocean Service

NRC

National Research Council

NROSS

Navy Remote Ocean Sensing System

NSCAT

NASA Scatterometer

NSF

National Science Foundation


OCE

Ocean Sciences Division (NSF)

Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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OLR

outgoing long-wave radiation

OMB

Office of Management and the Budget

ONR

Office of Naval Research

OSSE

observing-system simulation experiment


pCO2

partial pressure of carbon dioxide

PEQUOD

Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics Experiment

PMEL

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

ppmv

parts per million by volume


SEQUAL

Seasonal Equatorial Atlantic Experiment (SEQUAL/FOCAL)

SCPP

Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Prediction Program (NOAA)

SIO

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

SMMR

Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer

SOI

Southern Oscillation Index

SSG

Scientific Steering Group

SSM/I

Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

Sv

sverdrup, 106m3/s

SWG

science working group


TAO

Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean

TCIPO

TOGA COARE International Project Office

TIROS

Television Infrared Observation Satellite

TIWE

Tropical Instability Wave Experiment

TOGA

Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Program

TOPEX/Poseidon

Ocean Topography Experiment (Poseidon is the French component of the experiment)

T-POP

TOGA Program on Prediction

TSLC

TOGA Sea Level Center


U.N.

United Nations

UNCED

U.N. Conference on Environment and Development

UNESCO

U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

USGCRP

U.S. Global Change Research Program


VACM

vector-averaging current meter

VMCM

vector-measuring current meter

VOS

volunteer observing ship


WEPOCS

Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Study

WESTRAX

Western Tropical Atlantic Experiment

WOCE

World Ocean Circulation Experiment

WCRP

World Climate Research Programme

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

WWW

World Weather Watch (WMO)


XBT

expendable bathythermograph

XCTD

expendable conductivity-temperature-depth probe

Suggested Citation:"APPENDICES." National Research Council. 1996. Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5003.
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The TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) Program was designed to study short-term climate variations. A 10-year international program, TOGA made El Nino a household word. This book chronicles the cooperative efforts of oceanographers and meteorologists, several U.S. government agencies, many other nations, and international scientific organizations to study El Nino and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

It describes the progression from being unable to detect the development of large climate variations to being able to make and use rudimentary climate predictions, especially for some tropical countries. It examines the development of the TOGA Program, evaluates its accomplishments, describes U.S. participation in the program, and makes general recommendations for developing better understanding and predictions of climate variations on seasonal to interannual time scales.

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