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TOGA COARE

1991 to 1994

From 1991 to 1994 Dave served as Director of the International Project Office for the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE). That large project, involving 2000 people from 20 countries, focused on warm waters of the western Pacific Ocean and their role in large-scale patterns such as ENSO: El Nino-Southern Oscillation. During the measurement phase we worked from an operations centre in Townsville, Australia. Find pictures of our adventures in Australia here.

Operations Centre

On the RAAF base in Townsville, Australia

Aircraft operations

Staged from Honiara, Solomon Islands