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The Research Vessel Problem--J. N. Moum, Eric D'Asaro, Mary-Louise Timmermans, and Peter Niiler
Pages 150-152

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From page 150...
... With these two new vessels, the US oceanographic research fleet goes from 12 vessels to seven vessels long before 2025 under present planning guidelines, although five of these seven will be past the ends of their service lives by then. At the same time, the oceanographic community has incurred new obligations in assuming responsibilities for global, regional and coastal observing systems.
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From page 151...
... Intensive ship surveys measuring, for example, a full suite of biogeochemical properties for ecosystem studies, or high-resolution 3D towed and acoustic surveys of ocean density and microstructure for mixing studies, will be supplemented by autonomous platforms placing these intensive ship measurements in a larger space and time context. For example, the most important problem in physical oceanography today is a resolution of the subgrid scales of ocean circulation models.
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From page 152...
... 152 OCEANOGRAPHY IN 2025 Given a nominal life of about 30 years, planning for ship replacement must begin before the ships to be replaced are 20 years old." The addition of the Navy's two new Ocean Class Vessels is welcome and important, but these are not enough. Oceanographers are in danger of not being able to respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
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