TOGA is a program jointly sponsored by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO); the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU); the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC); and the ICSU Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).

TOGA has four major objectives:

* To collect and catalog observations of the tropical atmosphere and ocean;

* To assess the evolution of the tropical atmosphere/ocean system in real time; To promote the development of short-term climate-prediction computer models for the tropics;

* To study the influence of the tropical atmosphere/ocean system on the climate at higher latitudes.
NASA Earth Observatory