in his country as regards IGOSS and proposed to create a 

 permanent coordinating organ for the joint IGOSS-WWW pro- 

 gram, which organ was to be composed of both the IGOSS 

 Working Committee of the IOC and the WMO/EC Panel on 

 Meteorological Aspects of Ocean Affairs. 



Ambassador McKernan expressed the satisfaction of the United 

 States with the progress of the preparatory work for IGOSS. 

 He suggested that further consideration of the matter should 

 be deferred until after the joint meeting of the IGOSS 

 Working Committee with the WMO/EC Panel during the last week 

 of February. Dr. Roll (FGR) stated that while he was 

 satisfied with the advisory arrangements as regards purely 

 scientific matters he still considered the arrangements for 

 intergovernmental action in the field of ocean-atmosphere 

 studies inadequate. 



Following further discussion involving the delegates of the 

 Federal Republic of Germany, USA, USSR and United Kingdom, 

 a consensus was reached that the Bureau should approve SCOR's 

 representing IOC's interests on the joint group of lAMAP/lAPSO/SCOR 

 as far as purely scientific aspects are concerned o The opera- 

 tional aspects, however, would be referred to the IGOSS 

 Working Committee. Professor Roll (FGR) prepared a draft 

 recommendation. The representative of WMO indicated that if 

 in the recommendation of the Bureau it were clearly indicated 

 that the Joint lOC/WMO Intergovernmental Group, as envisaged 

 by Resolution V-20C, would report back to the IOC Session on 

 the one hand and to the Executive Committee of WMO on the 

 other, the efforts of the two Secretariats might lead toward 

 the establishement of such a group. It was suggested there- 

 fore that the original draft recommendation be amended 

 accordingly. Recommendation 9^9 was adopted under this 

 Agenda Item. 



Recommendation 9«9 



The Bureau endorsed the agreement reached by the 

 Secretariat that the Joint lAMAP/lAPSO/SCOR Committee on Air- 

 Sea Interaction would advise IOC through SCOR on scientific 

 aspects of ocean-atmosphere interaction studies and instructed 

 the Secretariat to inform the Bureau and Consultative Council 

 of this Committee's terms of reference when they become knowno 



The Bureau instructed the Secretary to resume negotia- 

 tions with the WMO Secretariat as regards the establishment 

 of a Joint lOC/WMO (intergovernmental) Working Group on 

 Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction with terms of reference along 

 the lines specified in Resolution V-20C, keeping in mind 

 that the Group so established will report back to both the 

 IOC and WMO for decision, using the lAMAP/lAPSO/SCOR 

 Committee on Air/Sea Interaction for scientific advice. 



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