SCOR Working Group 15

Photosynthetic Radiant Energy (joint with UNESCO and IAPO)

Chair(s)
John E. Tyler (USA)
Other Full Members
Ian Baird (UK), Alexander Ivanoff (France), Nils Jerlov (Denmark), Harry R. Jitts (Australia), Yulen Ochakovsky (USSR), Yatsuka Saijo (Japan), and E. Steemann Nielsen (Denmark)
Associate Members
Ex-officio: T.R. Parsons (Canada) as chair of WG 24
Terms of Reference
  1. To identify exactly what measurement of irradiance is required by biological oceanographers.

  2. To recommend apparatus and procedure for measuring the variable defined above

Financial Sponsors
SCOR, UNESCO, IAPO
Meetings
  1. 5-9 October 1964 in Moscow, Russia

  2. 15-19 August 1966 in Kauizawa, Japan

  3. 17-21 November 1969 in Miami, Florida, USA

  4. 2 May – 4 June 1970 – Sea Trials in Atlantic Ocean on R.V Discoverer

Publications
  • 1965. Report of the first meeting of the joint group of experts on photosynthetic radiant energy held at Moscow, 5-9 October 1964. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 2.

  • 1966. Report of the second meeting of the joint group of experts on photosynthetic radiant energy held at Kauizawa, 15-19 August 1966. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 5

  • 1969. Technical report of sea trials conducted by the working group on photosynthetic radiant energy, Gulf of California, May 1968. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science 13

  • 1970 Report to SCOR