the exchange of oceanographic data, establishes standards for data, 

 and furthers international research in the oceans. 



SCOR recently established a Committee on Climatic Changes and the 

 Ocean (CCCO), which replaced a Committee on Oceanography and GARP 

 (COG). It includes many working groups (WGs) that are established 

 and abolished as needed. Acronyms associated with these include 

 NEADS — the North East Atlantic Dynamics Studies, a subgroup of the 

 WG on Internal Dynamics of the Oceans, also sponsored by lAPSO; 

 OAMEX, THE WG on Ocean-Atmosphere Exchange Processes, also sponsored 

 by lAMAP and lAPSO; BIOMASS — the WG on Biological Investigations of 

 the Marine Antarctic System and Stocks, also sponsored by ACMRR, 

 lABO, and SCAR: and CER, the WG on Coastal and Estuarine Regimes, 

 cosponsored by ECOR and lAPSO. 



123. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON WATER RESEARCH: COWAR 



Among its responsibilities, COWAR advised ICSU on the activi- 

 ties of the International Hydrological Decade (IHD). 



124. SPECIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL PROGRAMME: 

 SCIBP 



Now abolished, SCIBP supervised the International Biological 

 Programme (IBP), which included several subprograms relating to 

 marine biology. 



125. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS OF THE ENVIRONMENT: SCOPE 

 Established in 1969 at the Stockholm Conference on the Environ- 

 ment, SCOPE is concerned with monitoring, evaluation, prediction, 

 and modeling of environmental events. In 1974 it cosponsored, with 

 UNEP, a Workshop on Impact Studies in the Environment (WISE). 



126. INTER-UNION COMMITTEES OR COMMISSIONS 



At times, two or more unions may elect to form a committee or 

 commission to work on projects of mutual concern. Of interest are 

 the Upper Mantle Committee (UMC) , which includes special commissions 

 to study the world rift systems and continental margins and which 

 supervised the Upper Mantle Project (UMP); the Inter-Union Commission 

 for Geodynamics (ICG), also known as the ICSU Inter-Union Commission 

 for Geodynamics (IICG), which was established in 1970 to administer 

 the International Geodynamics Project (IGP); the Special Committee 

 on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP), formerly known as the Inter- 

 Union Commission on Solar Terrestrial Physics (lUCSTP); and the 

 Inter-Union Committee on Radio-Meteorology (lUCRM), established to 

 bridge the gap between scientists involved in radio meteorology and 

 those involved in meteorology. A proposal to establish an Inter- 

 Union Committee on Radio Oceanography (lUCRO) or Radio Geophysics 

 (lUCRG) to be concerned with remote sensing and routine monitoring 

 of the oceans was made in 1975. After some consideration, the pro- 

 posal was dropped and lUCIM' s constitution was revised in 1976 to 

 include responsibilities in oceanography. 



127. PANEL ON WORLD DATA CENTERS: PWDC 



During the International Geophysical Year (IGY), ICSU estab- 

 lished a Special Committee for IGY, known as CSAGI for its French 

 title, Comite Special de I'Annee Geophysique International. CSAGI 

 was terminated in 1959, and many of its functions were assumed by 

 the newly created Comite International de Geophysique (CIG), which 

 was terminated in 1968. CSAGI and CIG were responsible for coord- 

 inating projects and programs of nations participating in IGY and 

 for making the results of each program available to the world 



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