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         Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette
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         No 24, 22 December 1997    /
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         Title:   IERS organisation for Monitoring Global Geophysical Fluids
         Author:  Chris Reigber, Chairman of the IERS Directing Board

    At its 10 December 1997 meeting in San Francisco, the IERS Directing Board
has selected the Coordinating Centre and Special Bureaus to deal with the IERS 
Monitoring of Global Geophysical Fluids (MGGF). The organisation of activities 
will be as listed hereafter.  The MGGF Coordinating Centre representative is a 
member of the Directing Board starting with 1 January 1998.

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                             COORDINATING CENTRE                          
                             ___________________                 Head: B. Chao 
   
                  GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics (LTP)    
                                            Contact: chao@denali.gsfc.nasa.gov 

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                               SPECIAL BUREAUS 
                               _______________
   
   Atmosphere                                                Head: D. Salstein
   ----------                                        Contact: salstein@aer.com 
   Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER)                  [D. Salstein]
   National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)          [A.J. Miller]

   Ocean                   Cooperation to be organized by the MGGF Coordinator
   -----                   between the following groups.                      
   a) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)                               [R. Gross]
   b) Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER)                  [R. Ponte]
      National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)             [F.O. Bryan]

   Ocean tides                                                  Head: R.D. Ron
   -----------                              
   GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics (LTP)                     [B. Chao]
      
   Continental Hydrology                                         Head: B. Chao
   ---------------------                             
   GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics (LTP)                     [B. Chao]
   
   Mantle Fluid Variations                                       Head: B. Chao
   -----------------------                                                  
   GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics (LTP)                     [B. Chao]

   Core                                                        Head: V. Dehant
   ----                                       Contact: veronique.dehant@oma.be
   Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB)                              [V. Dehant]
   Institut de Physique du Globe de PariS (IPGP)             [M. Greff-Lefftz]
   Ecole et Observ. de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg (EOPGS)     [H. Legros]
   Laboratoire de Geophysique Interne et Tectonophysique (LGIT)     [D. Jault]

   Geocenter and Gravitational Field                          Head: M. Watkins
   ---------------------------------           Contact: mmw@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
   Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)                                [M. Watkins]
   Center for Space Research (CSR)                                  [R. Eanes]