Table 5.-United States task leaders in the Climate Long-Range Investigation, 

 Mapping, and Prediction (CLIMAP) program 



Organization 



Investigator 



Task 



Brown University 



J. Imbrie 

 R. Matthews 

 T. Webb, III 



Marine paleociimatology 

 Sea level history 

 Land-sea interaction 



Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty A Be 



Geological Observatory 



P. Biscay and 



K. Venkatarathnam 



L. Burckle 



J. D. Hays 



A. Mclntyre 



C. D. Ninkovich 



N. Opdyke 



T. Saito 



J. van Donk 



G. Kukia 



Planktonic foraminifera 

 Clay mineralogy 



Diatoms 



Radiolaria 



Coccolithophorida 



Volcanic ash layers 



Paleomagnetism 



Foraminifera 



Oxygen isotopes 



Glaciation and land-sea correlation 



Oregon State University 



T. Moore and 

 G. Ross Heath 



Sedimentology 



NOAA Projects 



Several projects that were initiated by the National 

 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) prior to 

 1970 are now being funded under the IDOE Environmental 

 Forecasting Program. The status and accomplishments of the 

 NOAA projects are discussed in the text that follows. 



Organization: NOAA/NMFS-LaJolla 



Investigator: J. F. T. Saur 



Project Title: Ships of Opportunity: Time-Series Expendable 

 Bathythermograph Sections, Tropical and North Pacific 

 Ocean 



Grant No.: AG-256 



This 3-year program to obtain ocean salinity, surface 

 temperature, temperature-vs-depth (XBT), and weather ob- 

 servations aboard merchant vessels (ships of opportunity) is 

 into its final year. 



NODC has accessioned most of the 1969-72 data (3,572 

 digitized XBT records). Figure 22 shows the Marsden Squares 

 for which time-series XBT data have been collected and will 

 be available from the NODC. 



Organization: NOAA/POL 



Investigator: D. Halpern 



Project Title: Near-surface Circulation Studies 



Grant No.: AG-253 



On August 4, 1971, the NOAA Pacific Oceanographic 

 Laboratory (POL), Seattle, Wash., began taking measure- 

 ments of surface winds, currents, and temperatures in the 

 upper layers of the Pacific Ocean (from about 5 to 50 me- 

 ters). Records were recorded for 32.7 days at one location in 

 the Northeast Pacific, remote from intense boundary currents 

 and from continental boundaries. The experimental site, which 

 was located at 47^03. 37'N, 128°17.17'W, was about 250 kilo- 

 meters from the continental shelf break and about 220 kilome- 

 ters from the Cobb Seamount of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. 



A salinity-depth-temperature (STD) survey of the area 

 surrounding the data collection platform (a Richardson buoy) 

 was completed after its mooring and repeated before its recov- 

 ery. Locations of the STD casts appear in the IDOE Progress 

 Report: January 1970 to July 1972. 



The STD and current meter data have been accessioned 

 by NODC on magnetic tape (accession number 720953 and 

 720448, respectively). The sampling scheme for measuring 



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