A TOGA experiment conducted in thr equatorial western Pacific from November 1992 through February 1993. The stated aims of COARE were to describe and understand:

the principal processes responsible for the coupling of the ocean and atmosphere in the western Pacific warm pool system;

the principal atmospheric processes that organise convection in the warm pool region;

the oceanic response to combined buoyancy and wind stress forcing in the western Pacific warm pool region; and

the multiple scale interactions that extend the oceanic and atmospheric influence of the western Pacific warm pool system to other regions and vice–versa. Additional information can be found at the TOGA COARE Web site21.