UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) are to establish a new Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) in response to the clear need to enhance integrated observation of the earth's atmosphere and oceans.
The recent Twentieth Session of the IOC Assembly and the Thirteenth World Meteorological Congress have both given approval to a proposal for the new Joint Commission, which will be a high-level intergovernmental body of experts in oceanography and meteorology and which will represent a culmination of more than 30 years of IOC/WMO cooperation on ocean observing systems and services. …

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