observation networks whose data will be the basic 

 input for ocean and weather prediction tech- 

 niques. Recommendations to the Federal Govern- 

 ment have been made consistently by the National 

 Academy of Sciences Committee on Ocean- 

 ography^'* and the President's Science Advisory 

 Committee,^^ with little response. The time has 

 come to take action. With the decision of the 

 Government to move forward with a major ocean 

 buoy development program under the aegis of U.S. 



Coast Guard, the time is at hand when technology 

 will permit a major assault on the problem. 



Recommendation : 



There should be initiated as soon as possible a 

 well-defined program to study oceanic scales of 

 motion and such a study should be one of the 

 early foci for the test of the elements of the 

 National buoy program. 



Oceanography 1966, National Academy of Sciences, 

 National Research Council, Pub. No. 1492, 1967. 

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Effective Use of the Sea, Report of the President's 

 Science Advisory Committee, 1966. 



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