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The National Science Foundation supports oceanographic research at civilian oceanographic 

 institutions. This research cannot be carried on properly without the benefit of all the available ocean- 

 ographic data relating to their particular problems. They are able to obtain from the National 

 Oceanographic Data Center, in a suitably processed form, data thai enables them to carry out their 

 research expeditiously and in larger volumes than ever heretofore available for determining the 

 environmental interrelationships. The data from the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE), 

 which is coordinated in the United States by the National Science Foundation, will be processed by the 

 National Oceanographic Data Center. 



WEATHER BUREAU 



The Weather Bureau has a similar repository for meteorological data at its National Weather 

 Records Center in Asheville, North Carolina, which contains, along with the meteorological tlata. many 

 surface water temperature and sea and swell data. The relation of the collections of the data in these 

 two centers is close, because at the ocean interface, the ocean of air and the ocean of water exert pro- 

 found influences on each other. The surface water temperature data and the marine meteorological 

 data must go hand in hand. 



