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Advanced Research Projects Agency 



FY 1965-1525,000 

 FY 1966-$550,000 

 FY 1967 -$700,000 



Background 



The Advanced Research Projects Agency 

 (ARPA) has the responsibihty for implementing 

 Project VELA, which is concerned with the re- 

 search, experimentation, and systems develop- 

 ment needed to attain an adequate capability for 

 detecting nuclear explosions underground and 

 at high altitudes. The VELA UNIFORM Program, 

 a major sub-project of VELA, is concerned with 

 research and development to improve detection, 

 location, identification, and verification of under- 

 groimd and imderwater nuclear explosions. About 

 20 percent of this eff"ort is conducted on the 

 continental shelf. 



Proposed FY 1967 Program 



In FY 1967, those aspects of this program in- 

 volving marine geophysics are reported for the 

 first time in the National Oceanographic Program. 

 In general, ARPA has implemented the VELA 

 UNIFORM Program by delegating technical 

 management of contracts to research and de- 

 velopment organizations within the Departments 

 of Defense, Commerce, Interior, and the Atomic 

 Energy Commission. By means of contracts and 

 grants through these agencies, ARPA intends to 

 continue support of projects which will provide 

 new geophysical information on seismicity, earth 

 structure, microseisms, and hydroacoustic-seismic 

 wave propagation characteristics in several 

 oceanic areas of the world, particularly in the 

 island-arc regions of the Circum-Pacific Seismic 

 Belt. 



DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 



Environmental Science Services Administration 



FY 1965-11,070,000 

 FY 1966-$L186,000 

 FY 1967 -$2,290,000 



Background 



On May 13, President Johnson submitted to 

 Congress his Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1965, 

 proposing the consolidation of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, the Weather Bureau, and the 

 Central Radio Propagation Laboratory to form 

 the Environmental Science Services Administra- 

 tion. The plan became effective two months later 

 on June 1 3th. ESSA's mission is to describe, under- 

 stand, and predict the state of the oceans, the 

 state of the upper and lower atmosphere, and the 

 size and shape of the earth. 



Within ESSA, the Weather Bureau participates 

 in international meteorological and hydrological 

 activities, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 conducts investigations, analyses, research, 

 sinveys, and disseminates data in the fields of 

 hydrography and oceanography. The newly 

 established Institute for Oceanography, however, 

 will be responsible for the major part of ESSA's 

 oceanographic research. 



The Institute for Oceanography attempts to 

 provide increased knowledge and better under- 

 standing of the ocean and its influences on or 

 interactions with the total physical environment 

 of the globe as required to improve ESSA's marine 

 services. In carrying out this mission the Institute 

 for Oceanography works closely with the other 

 Institutes for Environmental Research of ESSA. 

 Approximately 30 percent of the ESSA research 

 program is conducted on the continental shelf. 



Proposed FY 1967 Progran. 



Sea-Air Interaction 



This program was prepared by the Department 

 of Commerce and reviewed by the ICO/ICAS 

 Air-Sea Interaction Panel. 



Emphasis will be on area studies in determining 

 optimum locations for meso-scale air-sea interac- 

 tion processes research. In addition, the use of 

 models is planned for studies of: seasonal change 

 of ocean currents in response to wind stress and 

 related water-mass movements; effect of density 

 structure and wind stress on abrupt shifts of the 

 Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Currents away from 

 shore in middle latitudes; and temperature distri- 

 bution at the smface on total meridional heat 

 transport in an enclosed basin. Mathematical 



