392 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Great Lakes are now being extended to open coast regions. They are: 
1. The numerical solution of the equations governing the effect 
of meteorological disturbances on sea level. This project was started in 
1957 at the University of Chicago. The university project will be consolidated 
with a similar project at the Central Office early in FY6). 
2. The development of empirical equations, along theoretical 
lines, relating the water-level disturbances to earlier observed winds at 
land stations. Most of this has been carried out at the Central Office. . 
Other projects initiated in FY63 are: 
3. A study of the exchange of mechanical energy, heat and moisture; 
between the atmosphere and the water by means of micrometeorological tower 
located in Lake Michigan. The tower and some of the instrumentation is being 
provided by the Lake Suryey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The University 
of Michigan is designing and assembling’ most of the instrumentation system 
under a research contract with the Heather Bureau, but is providing some 
instrumentation with funds from other sources. The university, the Weather 
Bureau and the Lake Survey will cooperate in the operation of the observing 
system and the analysis of the data, 
. Projects to improve the ice forecasts for the Great Lakes and 
the estimation of rainfall intensities over the takes are now underway in 
the Weather Bureau office in Detroit. These are being carried out ona 
time available basis by personnel assigned to the office for other duties 
with the cooperation of the Jake Survey and groups doing similar work in 
Canada. 
5. The Weather Bureau is also providing technical support and 
consultatinn service on meteorological and some oceanological problems to 
the Public Health Service Great Lakes Illionis River Basins Project under 
a reimbursable funds agreement. 
An approximate cost breakdown follows: 
PROJECT FY 1963 FY 1964 (Estimated) 
a 20,000 5,000 
2 10,000 3,000 
3} 50,000 60,000 
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5 13,000 18 ,000 
