The amount and type of clouds and precipitation are compared with surface fluxes in a time series and a composite fashion. These data are derived from SSM/I and ISCCP during TOGA COARE IOP. The fluxes data have a time resolution of 3 hours and the SSM/I derived clouds and precipitation properties are available twice daily. We focus on cloud systems with time scale of several hours to several days to determine the interrelationship between clouds and surface fluxes. We will present results from both cases studies and time-averaged composite for several typical conditions, such as large cloud cluster, suppressed shallow convections, etc