Cruise inventory
RRS James Clark Ross JR19990425 (AMT8, JR41)
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Cruise period | 1999-04-25 — 1999-06-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
| Port of return | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The AMT 8 cruise took place in two legs, April 25th - April 29th and May 18th -June 7th 1999. The Principal Scientist was Nigel Rees from PML.
The AMT 8 cruise report is only available electronically and is an incomplete document (http://web.pml.ac.uk/amt/cruises/AMT8/amt8.html). There are no plans to produce a finished document. |
| Chief scientist | Nigel Rees (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean South Atlantic Ocean |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 38 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | Density of the water column Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column Transmittance and attenuance of the water column Raw fluorometer output Temperature of the water column Carotenoid pigment concentrations in the water column Salinity of the water column Raw light meter output Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in the water column |
| 108 Expendable Bathythermograph | Temperature of the water column |
| 297 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply | Carotenoid pigment concentrations in the water column Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in the water column |
