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PMEL's TAO Project has partnered with other institutions in the design
and implementation of the Ocean Sustained Interdisciplinary Timeseries
Environment observation System (OceanSITES), a worldwide network of
deep water reference stations providing high temporal resolution data in
real time for ocean research and environmental forecasting. TAO Project
OceanSITES contributions include all ATLAS moorings within the TAO/TRITON, PIRATA, and RAMA arrays. In addition, embedded within these arrays are several specially instrumented reference sites for air-sea heat, moisture and momentum
fluxes. Several
moorings also support OceanSITES observatories for carbon and
biological measurements in collaboration with PMEL's CO2 Program, the LOCEAN CO2 Program at the University of Paris VI, and MBARI's Biological Oceanography Group.
Michael J. McPhaden
TAO Project Director
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