RV Endeavor EN454
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Endeavor (32EV) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | EN454 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 2008-09-18 — 2008-09-24 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Woods Hole, United States | ||||||||
| Port of return | Woods Hole, United States | ||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||
| Objectives | This cruise is the fourth RAPID-WAVE cruise in Line W. WAVE, which for stands for West Atlantic Variability Experiment, is a NERC funded project to study the variability of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Northwest Atlantic. The three previous cruises in Line W took place in 2004 (deployment of 6 lander Bottom Pressure Recorders, or BPRs), 2006 (recovery and redeployment of BPRs: 2 lander BPRs were recovered, 4 were lost, and 5 new landers were deployed), and May 2008 (3 lander BPRs were recovered and 2 deployed; operations were suspended due to bad weather). In the present cruise, the objectives were:
1.To recover two additional lander BPRs at sites W4 and W2. 2.To deploy 3 SeaBird 53 BPRs at sites W2, W3, W4 (now called M2, M3 and M4). This cruise was carried out in collaboration with the Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography (WHOI) on board the RV Endeavor of the University of Rhode Island. John Toole (WHOI) was the PSO for the this cruise. Peter Foden and Miguel Maqueda made the Proudman Oceanoraphic Laboratory crew for this cruise. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | John M Toole (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Physical Oceanography) | ||||||||
| Project | RAPID and WAVE. "Variability in Deep Western Boundary Flows off Atlantic Canada" | ||||||||
| Coordinating body | Bedford Institute of Oceanography and NERC | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) | ||||||||
| Specific | Continental slope south-east of Nova Scotia. | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.05 MB) | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: CTD casts | ||||||||
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 38° 26' 18" N 68° 54' 30" W — NBPR1-Near Bottomr Pressure Recorder, recovered from 3637m, 21/09/2008, 15:00 Z. | ||||||||
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 42° 26' 29" N 60° 28' 11" W — SBE53-5349607-0023 Bottom Pressure Recorder, deployed to 3355m, 21-09-2008 02:24 Z. | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 Bottom pressure sensor tide gauge | Reference numbers Date and time Temperature of the water column Sea level
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| Discrete samples | |||||||||
| 2 Instrument mooring |
