Final environmental impact statement/environmental impact report for the California Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate Project and its associated marine mammal research program. Volume 2: Final report
This EIS/EIR presents a detailed description of the proposed project, in addition to other information required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The overall Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project is an international research effort to observe the ocean on the large space scales (3,000 to 10,000 km) which characterize climate, which will enable climate models to be tested against the average ocean temperature changes seen by ATOC over a few years and if, and when, the models prove adequate, use those same observations to initialize the models to make meaningful predictions. The basic principle behind ATOC is simple. Sounds travels faster in warm water than in cold water. The travel time is a direct measure of the large-scale average temperature between the source and receiver. Measuring average ocean temperatures is necessary to validate global climate computer models being used and developed to answer the question of whether the earth is warming as a result of the greenhouse effect.
- Research Organization:
- Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA (United States); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD (United States); California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 673748
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-350539/XAB; TRN: 82720498
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Apr 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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