Accession Number:
AD0738073
Title:
The Soviet Darms,
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Corporate Author:
RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CALIF
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Report Date:
1971-07-01
Pagination or Media Count:
20.0
Abstract:
The Soviets have for many years been channeling substantial amounts of effort and resources into their Arctic research program. An extensive network of weather stations operate year-round along the entire arctic coastline of the Soviet Union, and seasonal observations of ice conditions are performed by a large fleet of ice-reconnaissance aircraft, by icebreakers, by ship-based helicopters, and by satellites. In addition, since 1954, the Soviets have had at least two manned drifting stations simultaneously operating in the Arctic Basin at all times. A considerable amount of data has also been gathered by the annual High Latitude Air Expeditions that have enabled Soviet scientists to make observation-oriented landings all over the Arctic Basin, especially in the otherwise inaccessible central regions. Finally, Soviet scientists have developed and deployed Drifting Automatic Radio-Meteorological Stations DARMS specially designed to operate and gather data in the pack-ice environment of the Arctic Basin. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Meteorology