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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH7A/83

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Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH7A/83
Short name CH7A/83
Objectives and Narrative The objectives of this cruise were:
(1) To service current meter moorings on the Porcupine Bank Slope, at sites F and M in the Rockall Channel and site Y in the Tiree Passage. One (of 2) Porcupine Bank moorings could not be located. Otherwise accomplished. CTD section worked along Porcupine mooring line.
(2) To deploy four current meter moorings on a line across the Hebridean Slope west of South Uist. Two moorings deployed.
(3) To deploy three satellite-tracked drogues at the southern entrance to the Rockall Channel. Accomplished.
(4) To make Agassiz trawl, benthic sledge and midwater trawl hauls at the 54N benthos station and station M. Accomplished.
(5) To work CTD sections with radiochemical sampling across the Scottish continental shelf. Four sections worked between the Mull of Galloway and Islay.
(6) To deploy IOS Bidston tide gauges in the Porcupine Sea Bight and the Rockall Channel. Accomplished.
Ship RRS Challenger
Departure Port Falmouth, United Kingdom
Departure Date 1983-05-11
Arrival Port Oban, United Kingdom
Arrival Date 1983-05-23
Principal Scientist(s) David J Ellett (Scottish Marine Biological Association)
Responsible Organisation Scottish Marine Biological Association
Associated Project(s)
IHB Sea Areas Visited Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)
Marsden Squares Visited 181;143/181;245/181;4/182;141/182;215/182;370/182;371/182;372
Work Area Description Porcupine Bank; Rockall Channel; Scottish Shelf; North Channel
Unable to lookup cruise bounds at this time
Work Area Bounding Polygon
Southern Limit unknown
Northern Limit unknown
Western Limit unknown
Eastern Limit unknown

Cruise Inventory Datasets

Physical oceanography  
CTD stations Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description: noisy salinity  
Current meters Quantity: number of recoveries = 10
Description: Current meters recovered  
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) Quantity: number of deployments = 2
Description: Pressure gauges deployed  
Surface drifters/drifting buoys Quantity: number of deployments = 3
Description: Drogued buoys deployed  
Chemical oceanography  
Radioactivity Quantity: number of samples = 25
Description: Surface 137Cs samples.  
Biology and fisheries  
Zoobenthos Quantity: number of hauls = 3
Description: Agassiz trawl plus 2 epibenthic sledge  
Zooplankton Quantity: number of hauls = 1
Description: RMT haul  

Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations

No information on datasets is currently available

Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise

National Oceanographic Database

Summary

# Series Instrument Description Parameters
33 CTD/STD cast Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates

Note: Parameter terms are taken from the BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary XML (SKOS)

Full List

BODC Reference Instrument Description Date/Time Location  
192910 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-15 05:25Z 51° 42' N, 14° 45' W Click for more
192922 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-15 06:50Z 51° 42' N, 14° 55' W Click for more
192934 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-15 12:23Z 51° 42' N, 15° 10' W Click for more
192946 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-15 14:47Z 51° 42' N, 15° 21' W Click for more
192958 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-15 15:04Z 51° 43' N, 15° 22' W Click for more
192971 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-16 18:27Z 54° 51' N, 15° 27' W Click for more
192983 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-18 20:28Z 57° 33' N, 12° 24' W Click for more
192995 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-19 11:02Z 57° 16' N, 10° 19' W Click for more
193009 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 07:05Z 55° 46' N, 8° 0' W Click for more
193010 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 08:47Z 55° 46' N, 7° 41' W Click for more
193022 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 10:11Z 55° 46' N, 7° 28' W Click for more
193034 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 11:27Z 55° 46' N, 7° 16' W Click for more
193046 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 12:42Z 55° 46' N, 7° 4' W Click for more
193058 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 13:38Z 55° 46' N, 6° 55' W Click for more
193071 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 14:25Z 55° 45' N, 6° 46' W Click for more
193083 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 15:11Z 55° 46' N, 6° 37' W Click for more
193095 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-21 16:00Z 55° 46' N, 6° 30' W Click for more
193102 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 01:22Z 54° 48' N, 5° 4' W Click for more
193114 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 02:06Z 54° 46' N, 5° 10' W Click for more
193126 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 02:55Z 54° 44' N, 5° 15' W Click for more
193138 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 03:38Z 54° 43' N, 5° 20' W Click for more
193151 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 04:14Z 54° 41' N, 5° 25' W Click for more
193163 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 05:12Z 54° 40' N, 5° 29' W Click for more
193175 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 09:33Z 55° 0' N, 5° 58' W Click for more
193187 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 10:23Z 55° 8' N, 5° 58' W Click for more
193199 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 11:07Z 55° 13' N, 5° 52' W Click for more
193206 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 12:13Z 55° 14' N, 5° 47' W Click for more
193218 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 13:05Z 55° 16' N, 5° 43' W Click for more
193231 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 16:17Z 55° 36' N, 5° 45' W Click for more
193243 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 16:42Z 55° 36' N, 5° 49' W Click for more
193255 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 17:10Z 55° 37' N, 5° 53' W Click for more
193267 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 17:52Z 55° 37' N, 5° 57' W Click for more
193279 CTD/STD cast 1983-05-22 18:22Z 55° 39' N, 6° 1' W Click for more

Project Database

No data currently held for this cruise in the BODC Project Database

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