Editing Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program (section)

==Results==
The TOGA program directly resulted in improved theoretical understanding of the ENSO cycle, including interactions between trade wind variations and sea surface temperature.  Further it helped explain the evolution, development, and decay of ENSO events.

As a result of TOGA, seasonal forecasts models, both statistical and dynamical, were developed.  The improvement of which resulted in the first successful ENSO prediction in 1986 and yearly forecasts being produced before the end of the program.

The impacts of TOGA extended beyond purely scientific findings but changed the way work was conducted within the [[oceanography]] and meteorology fields.  The TOGA program forged new cooperation between and oceanographers and meteorologists and fostered a new culture of open data access.  Rather than each research collecting and using their own data, data was now freely available to all in real time.

Perhaps the greatest success of TOGA program was the successful prediction and monitoring of the 1997-1998 El Nino, one of the largest El Nino events in history.  Only with the findings and data collection methods set forth during the TOGA program would such operational success be possible.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = McPhaden | first1 = M. J. | last2 = Busalacchi | first2 = A. J. | last3 = Anderson | first3 = D. L. T. | year = 2010 | title = A TOGA retrospective | url =https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/23-3_mcphaden.pdf | journal = Oceanography | volume = 23 | issue = 3| pages = 86–103 | doi = 10.5670/oceanog.2010.26 | doi-access = free }}</ref>