PIRATA Station Plots - Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array
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The Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array Program is a multi-national effort to provide data in real-time for climate research and forecasting. Major components include the TAO/TRITON array in the Pacific, PIRATA in the Atlantic, and RAMA in the Indian Ocean. The major phenomenological foci of this array are: (i) El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific; (ii) The interhemispheric dipole mode, equatorial warm events, and hurricane activity in the Atlantic; (iii) The monsoons, the Indian Ocean Dipole, and intraseasonal variability in the Indian Ocean.
The referred web page provides PIRATA station plots including buoy summary plots, barometric pressure, salinity, longwave radiation, precipitation, sensor plots, ocean current, potential density (sigma theta), shortwave radiation, etc.