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SURVEY OF COMPUTER PROGRAM CATALOGS-I 
"COMPUTER PROGRAMS IN OCEANOGRAPHY" 
(Editor's note—This is the first of a series of notes concerning 
catalogs of computer programs which are available currently. If 
you are aware of or are responsible for a catalog that should be 
mentioned in this series, I would appreciate further information. 
Special thanks are due to Daniel Cohen, of the Systematics Labor¬ 
atory, NOAA , who has made several such catalogs available to me. 
--JAP) 
The National Oceanographic Data Center issues a listing of 
computer programs of interest to oceanographers, compi1ing the 
list from information contributed by individuals or institutions. 
Each entry is composed of an abstract summarizing what the program 
can do; the language in which it is written ; the computer on which 
it runs; and the address of the individual from whom the program 
can be obtained. The material was compiled by C. Dinger, of NODC. 
It is arranged under subject headings, with the major headings 
as follows: Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Data 
Reduction; Editing and Special Input/Output; Geoscience; Graphical 
Display; Applied Mathematics; Navigation and Charting; Physical 
Oceanography; and Retrieval of Ocean Data. An index by agency 
or institution furnishing the abstract, an index by programming 
language, and an index by computer make and model are also in¬ 
cluded. Many of the programs are on file at NODC, and information 
can be obtained from the Director, National Oceanographic Data 
Center, Washington DC 20390 . Presumably copies of the catalog 
can also be purchased from the Director, although nothing indicates 
where one should send the $1.35 they charge per copy. The catalog 
is Publication C—5 (second revision), issued in 1970. --James A. 
Peters. 
AVAILABLE PROGRAMS 
WILCOX—Runs the Wilcoxon two-sample test (also known as the Mann- 
Whitney U-test), when one observation has been made on each 
element in two random samples. Results include the sum of 
the ranks in both samples, the number of observations in 
each sample, the test statistic "S." , and the number of ties 
between observations in different samples. Program also 
lists all observations in ranked order, if desired. In 
BASIC language, written by and available from James A. 
Peters, Division of Reptiles, Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington DC 20560, as paper tape for time-shared comput¬ 
ers . 
