TheGlobal Atmospheric Research Program was a fifteen-year international research programme led by theWorld Meteorological Organization and theInternational Council of Scientific Unions. It began in 1967 and organised several important field experiments includingGARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment in 1974 and the Alpine Experiment (ALPEX) in 1982. Its field experiments helped make significant progress in meteorology in particular allowing major improvements inNumerical Weather Prediction.
| 1966-1969:Global horizontal sounding technique (GHOST) program demonstrates feasibility of long-lived balloons as a precursor to the Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| 1972: "Experiment Design Proposal," Kuetner, Rider, Sitnikov approved by the Joint Organizing Committee for GARP (JOC) and the Tropical Experiment Board (TEB) |
| 15 June 1974: Experiment Began |
| 17 June - 25 June: In port, stand-down, en route, intercomparisons |
| 26 June - 16 July: Observation Phase I |
| 17 July - 27 July: In port, stand-down, en route, intercomparisons |
| 28 July - 17 August: Observation Phase II |
| 18 August - 29 August: in port, stand down, en route, intercomparisons |
| 30 August - 19 September: Observation Phase III |
| 20 September - 23 September: En route, intercomparisons[1] |
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