| The TAO
Project welcomes the opportunity to develop collaborative and/or cooperative
research projects that build upon the moored measurement infrastructure
established by PMEL over the past two decades in support of climate studies.
Investigators wishing to pursue field work that contributes to, enhances,
or otherwise builds upon the existing array must contact the TAO Project
Office prior to formal submission of proposals to national or international
funding agencies. Plans for collaborative and/or cooperative field work
will be reviewed by the TAO Project Office and (depending on the scope of
the proposed work) by the Tropical Moored Buoy
Implementation Panel to determine its feasibility based on current technical
and logistic constraints. For information specific to conducting research
aboard TAO servicing cruises, see Cooperative
Projects on TAO cruises.
Examples of projects
involving the TAO array include EPIC enhancements in the eastern tropical
Pacific, ARM radiation measurements, TRMM related rainfall studies, salinity
monitoring in the western Pacific as a legacy of COARE, and MBARI/PMEL
- sponsored chemical, biological and biooptical sensors on TAO moorings.
Other moored buoy programs include the PIRATA array in the tropical Atlantic,
the Japanese TRITON program of moored buoys in the western Pacific, and
the SCSMEX program in the South China Sea.
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