@InProceedings{Moura:2022:KeMoDe,
               author = "Moura, Antonio Divino",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Ken Mooney's Dedication to Building TOGA and the IRI",
                 year = "2022",
         organization = "American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 102.",
            publisher = "AMS",
             abstract = "I first met Ken Mooney in early 1985 and I had just become 
                         Director of INMET in Brasilia under the Ministry of Agriculture in 
                         Brasilia. After the successful simulation and prediction of El 
                         Niņo 1982-83 there was great expectation towards establishing 
                         international cooperation among tropical nations to measure the 
                         ocean currents and heat content in the upper tropical oceans and 
                         to develop models to predict them. The TOGA (Tropical Oceans and 
                         the Global Atmosphere) was then established under a strong 
                         guidance of a scientific steering committee, but it lacked 
                         governmental support for carrying out the oceanic and atmospheric 
                         measurements needed to advance the science and potential 
                         prediction of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system in the tropics. 
                         Mike Hall and Ken Mooney requested me to organize a meeting with 
                         Brazilian scientists for a presentation of the newly established 
                         US TOGA Program to motivate participation of Brazilian scientists 
                         and government officials. A meeting was organized first in 
                         Brasilia. Next day in Rio de Janeiro, another presentation to 
                         scientists was sponsored by the Meteorological Society. It was at 
                         this meeting in Rio that I first met Ken Mooney. After that we 
                         developed a long term collaboration which culminated with the 
                         establishment of the IRI at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. 
                         Meetings of this 18-member countries of the Intergovernmental TOGA 
                         Board to promote the advances of TOGA project occurred annually in 
                         Geneva. Ken was quite enthusiastic with the positive developments 
                         of TOGA as well as with the approval and the establishment of the 
                         IRI. During a meeting at ICTP in Trieste Ken forcefully motivated 
                         me to take up the position of Director of the incipient IRI at 
                         Columbia University in New York. In more recent years Ken came to 
                         Brasilia when I invited him to drive with me to my home town and 
                         spend time in a farm in the south. He was quite happy as we 
                         exchanged views on our achievements at NOAA/OGP, TOGA, IRI and 
                         ocean-atmosphere research and applications. Ken was a great 
                         science manager and superb human being and a sincere friend always 
                         ready to help when needed. I do miss him a lot.",
  conference-location = "Houston, Texas",
      conference-year = "23-27 jan. 2022",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "25 jun. 2024"
}