the oceans and atmosphere. The committee properly addresses 
the questions of how a better understanding of and ability to 
use the oceans and atmosphere wisely can ameliorate food and 
energy problems. In particular, NACOA has identified one of 
the key links—the climate and its variations—as a product of 
oceans and atmosphere through which we can hope to make 
an impact. 
The committee questions whether the Federal Government 
possesses an adequate structure for properly integrating oceanic 
and atmospheric efforts for the study of climate. I concur fully 
that problems of climate are more than just atmospheric in 
nature. They are, in a fundamental sense, also problems of the 
oceans. One of the pressing reasons for the formation of the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 
in the Department of Commerce three years ago by President 
Nixon was to establish just such a mechanism. I also believe it 
has worked effectively toward this end. 
This Administration has been acutely conscious of the critical 
need for better techniques of long-range weather prediction and 
for projecting the future course of the climate. Because of this, 
President Nixon has strongly endorsed the World Weather 
Program of the World Meteorological Organization and the 
International Council of Scientific Unions and its associated 
Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP). As the ad- 
visory committee has recognized, GARP has as one of its major 
objectives the understanding of the dynamics of the world’s 
climate. In this connection an International Conference on 
Climate and Climate Modeling is being held during July and 
August 1974 in Stockholm to define the programs of work 
required to meet the climate objective of GARP. The United 
States, along with other nations of the world, is devoting 
extensive resources to attack this problem. 
As I write these comments, the largest international field 
experiment ever mounted to study the processes of ocean and 
atmosphere is being carried out in the tropical Atlantic Ocean 
as part of GARP. In this experiment approximately 40 vessels, 
13 aircraft, geostationary and polar orbiting satellite systems, 
buoy arrays, and special land stations from 70 nations are en- 
gaged in a highly integrated and combined assault upon the 
study of physical processes of the tropical oceans and atmos- 
phere. This tropical Atlantic experiment is but one of a set of 
