Sea Level Measurement And Analysis in the Western Indian Ocean. National Reports. Comores, French Indian Ocean Islands & Somalia

Abstract

During the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's RegionalCommittee for the Co-operative Investigations in the North and Central Western IndianOcean (IOCINCWIO) held in Mombasa, Kenya in May 1997, a project proposal entitled "Sea Level data and Information in the IOCINCWIO region" was submitted and endorsed.Subsequently the Kenya Marine & Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRl) and the Instituteof Marine Sciences of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania prepared a detailed proposal which was approved for funding by IOC within the framework of the IOC-Sida-Flanders Marine Science programme.