BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RRS Discovery (74E3) cruise D63

Introduction

This report collates information from the BODC cruise inventory and oceanographic databases. It presents

Cruise Inventory Information
A summary of BODC data holdings for the cruise from the
- National Oceanographic Database
- Projects Database
References - including cruise tracks and cruise reports

Long name	RRS Discovery (74E3) cruise D63
Short name	D63
Objectives and Narrative	1) To obtain a series of large-volume water samples, for studies of the trace element compostion and particulate matter geochemistry of some of the water masses of the North Atlantic 2) To obtain a series of sediment core samples, for geochemical sudies, along selected profiles off the North West African margin 3) To obtain samples of the benthos at 3000-4000m depth off the North West African margin. 4) To obtain a 24 hour series of biological samples from 300-600m depth at a single station off northern Spain 5) To obtain side scan sonar and telelsounder coverage of the African continental shelf
Ship	RRS Discovery
Departure Port	Barry, United Kingdom
Departure Date	1974-06-12
Arrival Port	Freetown, Sierra Leone
Arrival Date	1974-07-14
Principal Scientist(s)	Stephen E Calvert (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation	Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory
Associated Project(s)	GATE
IHB Sea Areas Visited	North Atlantic Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)
Marsden Squares Visited	110/145/146/181/2/38/39/74/75
Work Area Description
Unable to lookup cruise bounds at this time
Work Area Bounding Polygon
Southern Limit	unknown
Northern Limit	unknown
Western Limit	unknown
Eastern Limit	unknown

Physical oceanography
Water bottle stations	Quantity: number of stations = 13 Description:
Chemical oceanography
Other chemical oceanographic measurements	Quantity: 1 Description: particulate organic matter
Other chemical oceanographic measurements	Quantity: 23 Description: sediment chemistry
Oxygen	Quantity: 13 Description:
Silicate	Quantity: 13 Description:
Trace elements	Quantity: 13 Description:
Biology and fisheries
Birds	Description:
Zooplankton	Quantity: 19 Description:
Meteorology
Incident radiation	Description: continuous solarimeter logging
Other meteorological measurements	Description: 2 min.values of temp.,wind and atm.pressure
Routine standard measurements	Description: 6 hourly;south of 20N(for GATE exercise)
Geology and geophysics
Core - soft bottom	Quantity: number of cores = 24 Description: chemical analysis
Long/short range side scan sonar	Quantity: track kilometres = 644 Description:
Multi-beam echosounding	Quantity: track kilometres = 4862 Description: