Oceanographic Tables and Standards (joint with ICES, IAPO, UNESCO; reconstituted as the Joint Panel on Oceanographic Tables and Standards [JPOTS])

See also, SCOR Ocean Carbon Working Groups.

Chair(s)

J. Gieskes (USA)

Other Full Members

E.L. Lewis (Canada), N.P. Fofonoff (USA), K. Grasshoff (FRG), W. Kroebel (FRG) - IAPSO, G.N. Ivanov-Franzkevich (USSR) - UNESCO, M. Menaché (France) - UNESCO, F. Culkin (UK) - ICES, C.K. Ross (Canada) - ICES, A. Poisson (France) - ICES, Frank Millero (USA) - UNESCO, and O. Mamayev (France) - UNESCO

Terms of Reference

1. To carry out all the necessary preparatory work for publishing new oceanographic tables

2. To advise on the certification of the standard seawater

3. To advise on such further investigations as may be desirable

Financial Sponsors

SCOR, ICES, UNESCO, IAPSO

Meetings

1. 10-12 December 1969 in Kiel, Germany
2. 23-25 May 1977 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

3. 1-5 September 1980 in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

Publications

• Tenth Report, UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 36 (1981)

• Background Papers and Supporting Data on the International Equation of State of Seawater 1980, UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 38 (1981)

• Carbon Dioxide Sub-group of the Joint Panel on Oceanographic Tables and Standards. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marie Science 42 (1983)

• Algorithms for calculations of fundamental properties of seawater, UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 44 (1983)

• Progress on Oceanographic Table and Standards 1983-1986, UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 50 (1986)

• Thermodynamics of the Carbon Dioxide System in Seawater. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 51 (1987)

• Reference Materials for Oceanic Carbon Dioxide Measurements. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 60 (1991)

• 1970 Report to SCOR

• 1978 Report to SCOR

• 1979 Report to SCOR