WEATHER BUREAU TECHNICAL NOTES 

 SEA-AIR INTERACTION LABORATORY REPORTS 



The Sea-Air Interaction Laboratory of the Environmental Science 

 Services Administration is responsible for the main research effort in 

 problems concerning the physical aspects of exchange processes between the 

 ocean and the atmosphere. The laboratory is also charged with the respon- 

 sibility of coordinating the federal effort in air-sea interaction research 

 and the development of a federal research program. 



The laboratory ' s program encompasses research in an in-house basis such 

 as storm sirrge research and the data collection program at sea. Other 

 projects are accomplished on a contract basis by universities and other 

 private agencies. 



Reports by the laboratory staff, contractors, and cooperators will be 

 preprinted in this series to allow immediate distribution of the information 

 among the workers and other interested organizations. Since these reports 

 may not be in completely polished form and are for limited reproduction and 

 distribution they do not constitute formal scientific publication. Reference 

 to a v^jnev in this series should identify it as a preprinted report. Formal 



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