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

• Main Authors: Rothrock, D., Maslowski, W., Chayes, D., Flato, G., Grebmeier, J.
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Geography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Submarine Engineering; *SUBMARINES; *ARCTIC OCEAN; MISSIONS; WORKSHOPS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; SCIEX(SCIENTIFIC ICE EXPEDITION); *ARCTIC OCEAN SCIENCE; BASELINE DATA MISSIONS; SCIENCE ACCOMMODATION MISSIONS; DEDICATED SCIENCE MISSIONS; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ice; permafrost; SCICEX; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA366059; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA366059

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.