The International Meteorological Center was set up at Bombay 

 as a result of a meeting of SCOR and IOC in I961. It is adminis- 

 tered by the World Meteorological Organization (V/MO) under a 

 United Nations Special Fund Project. Dr. C. Ramage was appointed 

 as International Scientific Coordinator for Meteorology with head- 

 quarters in Bomhay. Airplanes and buoys are used to study the 

 atm'ospheric circulation related to the monsoons and to investigate 

 the energy exchange between ocean and atmosphere. ■"■ 



Special care was used to standardize methods and intercali- 

 brate the instruments used by participants in IIOE in order to 

 make the observations more reliable and more comparable. Reference 

 stations were established at fifteen locations throughout the 

 Indian Ocean where participating ships could take observations, 

 whenever possible, for the purpose of intercalibration and compari- 

 son of working methods. 



Copies of all the data connected with the IIOE are to be 

 deposited in the two World lata Centers for Oceanography (Washington 

 and Moscow) and will be used for compilation of charts and atlases 

 of the Indian Ocean. 



^Ibid. 



