EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY \QQ 



Recommends to member countries the establishment of national oceanographic data centres in 

 order to facilitate the collection, processing, analysis, and exchange of oceanographic data; 



Urges member countries to participate with the I.H.B., in co-operation with World Date Centres 

 A and B for Oceanography, in the preparation of bathymetric plotting sheets for the world ocean 

 on as large a scale as possible; 



Recommends to the Governments of the U.S. A . , USSR, and the United Kingdom that they appoint 

 representatives of World Data Centre A, World Data Centre B and the Permanent Service for 

 Mean Sea Level to a working group of experts on the organization of oceanographic data exchanges 

 and invites the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, the International Hydrographic 

 Bureau and the World Meteorological Organization to designate representatives to this working 

 group. 



The mission of this working group shall be the facilitating of exchanges of oceanographic 

 data, the standardization of forms for reporting and coding data, the encouragement of the prepara- 

 tion of data catalogues, and the assistance of development of national oceanographic data centres. 



The working group should meet at the call of the Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceano- 

 graphic Commission and should report to the next session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic 

 Commission. Expenses of the individual members, including travel, should be met by the 

 member governments and organizations having representatives on the working group, or by 

 Unesco. 



Requests the Secretary and the Bureau of the Commission to seek advice from appropriate bodies 

 on the volume and nature of the data to be exchanged in the future . 



ADDENDUM TO RESOLUTION 9 



IGY LIST OF DATA TO BE EXCHANGED 

 (NS/IOC/INF.17) 



Projects 



(a) Shore stations recordings of: 



(i) Sea level 



(ii) Long period waves 



(b) Afloat: 



(i) Serial station for depth, temperature, salinity and chemical analysis 



(ii) Colour and transparency 



(iii) State of sea and swell 



(iv) Currents 



(v) Bottom sediments 



(vi) Bathymetry 



(vii) Bathythermography 



(viii) Meteorology and actinometry 



(ix) Biology 



Description and presentation of data 



(a) Sea-level records. These will be the mean monthly sea levels computed from hourly 

 observations from a recording gauge or alternatively according to standard observations on a 

 tide staff. 



