Start Date

4-1971 8:00 AM

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The Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) is an international cooperative program whose ultimate goals are to increase our understanding of the general circulation of the atmosphere and to develop physical and mathematical bases for extended weather prediction. GARP was established in response to United National resolutions of 1960 and 1961; most of the GARP research efforts are scheduled for the decade of the 1970s.

GARP encompasses two separate but closely related communities: the World Meterorological Organization (WMO), made up of national meteorological agencies and services and including most of the observing, telecommunications , and automatic data processing facilities now obtaining weather data; and the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), a research community composed of university groups and various research organizations and institutes operated by agencies other than the national meteorological services. This latter group devotes a large portion of its effort to fundamental research problems of the atmosphere.

A primary element of a research program is obtaining data. The data necessary for GARP will be collected from a composite of many systems, some of them already in operation. Meteorological satellites will be primary tools, and data from them will be supplemented by shipboard and aircraft observations, groundbased rawinsondes, and regular weather station data.

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An In Situ Measurement System for the Global Atmospheric Research 3-19 Program Using Balloons, Buoys and a Satellite

The Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) is an international cooperative program whose ultimate goals are to increase our understanding of the general circulation of the atmosphere and to develop physical and mathematical bases for extended weather prediction. GARP was established in response to United National resolutions of 1960 and 1961; most of the GARP research efforts are scheduled for the decade of the 1970s.

GARP encompasses two separate but closely related communities: the World Meterorological Organization (WMO), made up of national meteorological agencies and services and including most of the observing, telecommunications , and automatic data processing facilities now obtaining weather data; and the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), a research community composed of university groups and various research organizations and institutes operated by agencies other than the national meteorological services. This latter group devotes a large portion of its effort to fundamental research problems of the atmosphere.

A primary element of a research program is obtaining data. The data necessary for GARP will be collected from a composite of many systems, some of them already in operation. Meteorological satellites will be primary tools, and data from them will be supplemented by shipboard and aircraft observations, groundbased rawinsondes, and regular weather station data.

 

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