TOGA COARE SATELLITE DATA SUMMARIES AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Satellite data summary images and analysis plots from the Tropical Oce an Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOG A COARE), which were initially prepared in the field at the Honiara Op erations Center, are now available on the Internet via World Wide Web browsers such as Mosaic. These satellite data summaries consist of pro ducts derived from the Japanese Geosynchronous Meteorological Satellit e IR data: a time-size series of the distribution of contiguous cold c loudiness areas, weekly percent high cloudiness (PHC) maps, and a five -month time-longitude diagram illustrating the zonal motion of large a reas of cold cloudiness. The weekly PHC maps are overlaid with weekly mean 850-hPa wind calculated from the ECMWF global analysis field and can be viewed as an animation loop. These satellite summaries provide an overview of spatial and temporal variabilities of the cloud populat ion and a large-scale context far studies concerning specific processe s of various components of TOGA COARE.