Cruise inventory
RRS Bransfield AMT6b
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Cruise period | 1998-04-05 — 1998-05-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
| Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | AMT 6b took the AMT route from the Falkland Islands to the UK on the RRS Bransfield, with a small crew of three scientists. The aim of this additional cruise was to take the core measurements of the AMT programme, concentrating on underway data, with optics and XBT sampling where time and manpower allowed. This is important for maintaining the long-term data collection ideals of the AMT programme, particularly in the Southern Ocean where AMT 6, on the RRS James Clark Ross, did not sample as it departed from Capetown. |
| Chief scientist | Gerald Moore (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | AMT |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean South Atlantic Ocean |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 25 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 Temperature of the water column Salinity of the water column Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in the water column |
| 62 Water bottle hydrocast | Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column Carotenoid pigment concentrations in the water column Salinity of the water column Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in the water column |
