This is particularly true of long-range weather forecasting 
for which a vastly augmented program of surface and upper 
air observations as well as surface oceanographic observa- 
tions is essential. The meteorological portion of the Ocean 
Survey Plan has been designed not only to provide the Weather 
"searce 
Bureau with meteorological data required from their 
data areas", but also to provide the means for collecting 
simultaneous oceanographic and meteorological data from ships 
and instrumented buoys on a world-wide scale for use in under- 
standing air-sea interaction. This understanding is essential 
to the development of long-range weather forecasting and the 
possible eventual modification of our climate and weather. 
4, The Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines are 
responsible for investigations of the geology and mineral 
resources of the oceans. The Ocean Survey Plan includes 
their requirements for many kinds of geophysical data and 
for the systematic sampling of the sea floor at oceanographic 
stations in order to pinpoint areas of scientific and economic 
interest. Results of the investigations will provide infor- 
mation that is needed for an understanding of the oil and 
water-bearing sedimentary rocks that are now on land but 
originally formed in the marine environment, of geologic 
structures that control the distribution of mineral and water 
resources both on land and beneath the ocean, and of new 
sources of strategic minerals that may be acquired from the 
ocean and from the sea floor. 
