Analysis Project (BOMAP) and are available from the Environmental 

 Data and Information Service of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmos- 

 pheric Administration. 



Programs proposed for the continuation of BOMEX, known as the Global 

 Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (GLOMEX) and the Tropical 

 Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (TROMEX) were superseded 

 by other GARP projects before they could materialize. 



346. FIRST GARP GLOBAL EXPERIMENT: FGGE 



Proposed as the Global Weather Experiment (GWE) but more com- 

 monly called the First GARP Global Experiment, FGGE is basically a 

 period during which the entire atmosphere of the Earth is to be 

 observed by data collecting stations including satellites, balloons, 

 buoys, and ships. Some of the ships involved are Voluntary Observing 

 Ships (VOS), not directly affiliated with a participating agency. A 

 build-up year began in December 1977 and the FGGE Operational Year 

 (FOY) or GWE Operational Year (GOY) began in December 1978 and ended 

 in November 1979. Two intensive observing periods were carried out 

 from January 15 to February 13 and from May 10 to June 8. A research 

 and evaluation phase will extend into the 1980' s. 



A preliminary or Data System Test (DST) was performed by the United 

 States in 1974. In 1977 South Africa and the United States partici- 

 pated in the Southern Ocean Float Experiment (SOFEX), whose purpose 

 was to establish whether it would be feasible to launch and maintain 

 free-floating buoys operating sensors for a sufficient length of time 

 to be usable for FGGE. Special Tropical Wind Observing Ships (TWOS) 

 and Synchronous Meteorological Satellites (SMS) were developed for 

 FGGE. 



347. GARP ATLANTIC TROPICAL EXPERIMENT: GATE 



The first major subprogram of GARP involving international 

 participation, GATE took place in 1974. Its purpose was to investi- 

 gate the interaction of tropical weather systems and large-scale 

 circulation systems in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a 

 20-million-square-mile area extending from the eastern Pacific, 

 across Latin America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and ending in the 

 western Indian Ocean. A GATE subprogram entitled GATE Equatorial 

 Profiling Experiment (GEPE) was held in 1974. Preliminary experiments 

 for GATE are known as the GATE International Sea Trials (GIST). A 

 Boundary Layer Instrument System (BLIS) was designed for use during 

 GATE. GATE was managed by an International Scientific and Management 

 Group (ISMG), the Tropical Experiment Board (TEB), and the Tropical 

 Experiment Council (TEC). The GATE Operational Control Center (GOCC) 

 was at Dakar, Senegal. Subprogramme Data Centres (SDC's) for receiving 

 GATE data include the Synoptic-Scale Subprogramme Data Centre (SSDC) 

 at Bracknell, United Kingdom; the Boundary-Layer Subprogramme Data 

 Centre (BSDC) at Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany; the Convection 

 Subprogramme Data Centre (CSDC) in Washington, D.C., United States; 

 the Radiation Subprogramme Data Centre (RSDC) in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. ; 

 and the Oceanographic Subprogramme Data Centre (OSDC) in Brest, 

 France. National Processing Centers (NPC's) are responsible for 

 data taken nationally. Copies of all data processed either by the 

 SDC's or the NPC's are on file in the two world data centers, A and B. 



348. MONSOON EXPERIMENT: MONEX 



The Monsoon Experiment, whose purpose is a study of the capa- 

 bility of using models to simulate the onset of the monsoon over 

 Asia, includes two phases, Summer MONEX conducted December 1978 to 

 March 1979, and Winter MONEX conducted May 1979 to August 1979. 



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