Arctic Ocean Science from Submarines. A Report Based on the SCICEX 2000 Workshop

Abstract

This report makes the case for continuing to use submarines for scientific work in the Arctic Ocean. There are important scientific problems in physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, sea ice geophysics, and marine geology and geophysics that can be studied effectively only from submarines. Because of declining numbers and changing classes of submarines, this valuable resource for science will be quite limited over the next several years. We emphasize that extremely valuable scientific research can be accomplished with little or no impact on submarine operations or cruise plans. We describe the scientific work that could be done on three types of missions: (1) Baseline Data Missions (BDMs), which would have no impact on the submarine's primary military mission; (2) Science Accommodation Missions (SAMs), which would have only a small impact; and (3) longer-term Dedicated Science Missions (DSMs) in the mold of SCICEX. Each has a unique scientific payoff.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA366059

Entities

People

  • D. Chayes
  • D. Rothrock
  • G. Flato
  • J. Grebmeier
  • W. Maslowski

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Geography
  • Glaciology
  • Oceanography
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Ridges
  • Sea Water
  • Seabed
  • Terrain
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Economics
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies