PLAN OF WORKSHOP 



To facilitate the discussions of the workshop and to ensure that usable conclusions 

 should be reached, the discussions were designed to center on the following 10 basic questions: 



1. What instruments are available for infrared detection of sea surface temperature 

 from aircraft? 



2. What are the limits of instrument accuracy of presently available IRT equip- 

 ment? 



3. What are the important operational problems with infrared thermometers, and 

 what possible solutions are there? 



4. What limitations are imposed by variable meterorological conditions, and to 

 what extent can the effect of any of these be predicted and the data corrected? 



5. What factors other than meteorological act at the air- sea interface to affect the 

 accuracy of IRT sea-surface temperature determination? 



6. In view of the answers to the above questions, what specifically are we measur- 

 ing when we use the IRT over water ? 



7. What are the limits of accuracy of data collected with presently available in- 

 frared equipment in predicting "microsurface" temperatures, "bucket temper- 

 atures," and mixed-layer temperatures? 



8. What can be done to standardize the collection, reporting, processing, and 

 storage of IRT data and to expedite its retrieval and dissemination? 



9. What are the best uses to which the presently available IRT data can be put? 



10. What improvements could be made to reduce sources of error in presently 

 available IRT equipment? 



The first part of the workshop consisted in individual presentations of experience with 

 IRT equipment and discussions of resulting data. A brief account of these presentations 

 and a summary of the discussions are given in the section on Presentation of Papers. 

 Complete minutes were not kept because all papers presented are included in Part 2 — 

 Contributions. 



The second part of the workshop consisted in discussions of the 10 basic questions. 

 These discussions and the resulting conclusions are given in the section on Discussion of 

 Basic Questions. 



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