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Welcome to the
TAO project.
Between 1985 and 1994,
the TAO Project Office of PMEL led a major international effort to instrument
the entire tropical Pacific with nearly 70 deep ocean moorings.
Completed in 1994,
the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array has enabled real-time collection
of high quality oceanographic and surface meteorological data for monitoring,
forecasting, and understanding of climate swings associated with El Niño
and La Nina. In January 2000, the array was renamed the TAO/TRITON array
in recognition of a special partnership between PMEL and the Japan Agency
for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), in which JAMSTEC will
maintain several sites in the western portion of the array with its new
TRITON moorings. Data and graphic displays from the TAO/TRITON array are
updated every day, and the data are freely available to the research community,
operational forecasting community, and the general public. The TAO Project
Office also maintains pages that provide general information on El Niño
and La Niña, with links to other valuable web sites describing
climate forecasts, impacts, and complementary data sets.
We hope you find
our pages useful and informative, and welcome suggestions on how we can
improve our services.
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