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- Title
The GARP Atlantic tropical experiment.
- Authors
Mason, B. J.
- Abstract
The Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE), the first major observational experiment of the Global Atmospheric Research Programme (GARP) and designed to explore the tropical atmosphere, was successfully completed in September 1974. In what was probably the largest and most complex international scientific experiment ever undertaken, ten nations-Brazil, Canada, France, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Mexico, Netherlands, USA, UK and USSR-working in close collaboration, contributed 39 specially equipped ships, 13 large research aircraft, several meteorological satellites and some 5,000 personnel to an intensive three-month study of weather systems in the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean; in addition, some 50 countries in Africa and South America participated by making additional surface and upper-air observations.
- Publication
Nature, 1975, Vol 255, Issue 5503, p17
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/255017a0