Abstract:
The TOGA COARE Data Information System is responsible for
distributing all information related to TOGA COARE. Link to:
"http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/".
TOGA COARE was a multidisciplinary, international research effort that
investigated the scientific phenomena associated with the interaction
between the atmosphere and the ocean in the warm pool region of the
western Pacific. The field experiment phase of the program took place
from 1 November 1992 through 28 February 1993 and involved the
deployment of oceanographic ships and buoys, several ship and land
based Doppler radars, multiple low and high level aircraft equipped
with Doppler radar and other airborne sensors, as well as a variety of
surface based instruments for in situ observations.
The TOGA COARE Workshop Integrated Datasets (TCWIDS) are collections
of atmospheric and oceanographic datasets that were presented at the
TOGA COARE Workshop in Toulouse, France (1994) and converted to
netCDF. All datasets can be viewed and analyzed using Zebra, a
software package developed by the NSF-funded Research Data Program
within the Atmospheric Technology Division of the National Center for
Atmospheric Research. Zebra is used for data integration, analysis,
and display of a large variety of datasets and can be obtained
together with Zebra documentation and an on-line tutorial at
"http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/zebra/doc/Intro/Intro.html"
1. RELEASE 1 (Feb 95)
Release 1 comes on two exabyte tapes and includes the following datasets:
Satellite data;
Honiara GMS IR and VIS, NCAR
Honiara Large-Scale GMS, NCAR
Flament GMS IR, CD-ROM by P. Flament and R. Bernstein
SST - 4km images, University of Colorado
SSMI, Marshall Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center
Flight Level Aircraft Data;
DC-8, NASA
ER-2, NASA
Electra, NCAR
Electra PMS Analysis, NCAR
WP-3D, NOAA/MRD
C130, UK Met Office
Cessna Slow Data, Flinders Institute for Atmospheric and Marine
Sciences
Radar Data;
WP-3D Lower Fuselage Reflectivity, NOAA/MRD
Toga Radar Reflectivity, NASA/TRMM
MIT Radar Reflectivity, NASA/TRMM
Surface Data;
ISS Surface Data, NCAR
Buoy and Ship Data;
TOGA TAO, NOAA/PMEL
IMET (Whoi), Woods Hole
R/V Franklin Track, TCIPO
Franklin SST, CSIRO Australia
R/V Moana Wave, NOAA/ERL
R/V Wecoma, TCIPO
CTD Data;
Vickers, CRSIO
Natsushima, JAMSTEC
Malaita, National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research -
New Zealand
Alis, Centre ORSTOM New Caledonia
Wecoma, Oregon State University and University of Hawaii
Noroit, Centre ORSTOM New Caledonia
Moana Wave, University of Washington
Kexue, University of Hawaii
Model Data;
NMC, NASA/GSFC, LLNL
FNOC, NASA/GSFC, LLNL
Profiler and RASS Data;
Biak 50 MHz, NOAA
Christmas Island 50 MHz, NOAA
Kapingamarangi - high, low and rass, NOAA
Kavieng - high, low and rass, NOAA
R/V Kexue - high, low and rass, NOAA
Manus Island - high, low and rass, NOAA
R/V Moana Wave - high, low and rass, NOAA
Nauru - high, low and rass, NOAA
R/V Shiyan #3 - high, low and rass, NOAA
ISS Sounding Data;
Kapingamarangi, NCAR
Kavieng, NCAR
Manus Island, NCAR
R/V Kexue, NCAR
R/V Shiyan #3, NCAR
Nauru, NCAR
LD2 Dropsonde Data, NCAR
2. RELEASE 2 - SUPPLEMENT (August 95)
The data are contained on one Exabyte 8mm high density tape, and may
be considerered as a supplement to Release 1. The tape contains the
following:
Satellite data;
GMS Satellite images, University of Wisconsin
Satellite SST, University of Colorado
Sounding data;
PSS Soundings (incl. ISS soundings), UCAR/OFPS
Flight-level data;
P3 flight-level data, UC-Irvine
Surface data;
ISS surface data, NCAR
NOTE:
- the GMS satellite images in version 2 cover a wider area and have a
higher resolution than the previously-distributed versions.
- The CU Satellite SST are also a new version in which the images were
converted to netCDF for inclusion in the Integrated Dataset.
- PSS Soundings have gone through an extensive quality-control process
(and, in some cases, digitization).
- ISS Soundings data have been reprocessed to correct humidity errors
near the surface.
- A processing error introduced some minor errors in the surface data
for platform exp3. These errors -- all in the sixth digit or below -
are much smaller than the nominal accuracy of the measurements.
To order the datasets, either contact Bob Rilling (rilling@ncar.ucar.edu)
or the TCIPO.
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