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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH44

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH44
Short name CH44
Objectives and Narrative 1. To evaluate the hydrodynamic processes controlling the resuspension of sediment and its seasonal variability at two contrasting sites in the North Sea.
2. To evaluate the influence of sedimentological characteristics and geotechnical and geophysical properties of the bed on the resuspension of sediment at the two sites.
3. To examine the role of benthic and pelagic organisms in sediment resuspension and deposition processes.
4. To determine the impact of sediment resuspension on water quality through its influence on trace metal, nutrient and organic contaminant exchange processes.
5. To develop a detailed model interrelating vertical current structure and suspended sediment concentration at a point site. To use this model as the basis for constructing a fine-grid, 3-dimensional model incorporating sediment transport to cover the observational areas.
Ship RRS Challenger
Departure Port Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Departure Date 1989-01-15
Arrival Port Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Arrival Date 1989-01-27
Principal Scientist(s) Alan W Morris (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Bidston Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Associated Project(s) NERC North Sea Project
IHB Sea Areas Visited North Sea
Marsden Squares Visited 216;123/216;144
Work Area Description 543500N;0045000E, 523942N;0034004E
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 profiles = 40
Description:  
Current meters Quantity: activity duration in days = 6
Description: 6 days  
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) Quantity: activity duration in days = 6
Description:  
Transparency (eg transmissometer) Quantity: number of profiles = 40
Description:  
Chemical oceanography  
Nitrate Quantity: number of profiles = 40
Description:  
Nitrite Quantity: number of profiles = 40
Description:  
Phosphate Quantity: number of profiles = 40
Description:  
Silicate Quantity: number of profiles = 40
Description:  
Contamination  
Suspended matter Quantity: number of profiles = 40
Description:  
Trace metals Quantity: number of profiles = 40
Description:  
Biology and fisheries  
Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) Quantity: number of samples = 62
Description:  
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Quantity: number of profiles = 3
Description:  
Zooplankton Quantity: number of hauls = 31
Description:  
Meteorology  
Other meteorological measurements Quantity: number of observations = 6
Description: sea and swell  
Geology and geophysics  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of deployments = 18
Description:  
Grab Quantity: number of deployments = 50
Description:  

Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations

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Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise

National Oceanographic Database

Summary

# Series Instrument Description Parameters
8 Bottle station Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
Quality control flags
Reference numbers
Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
31 Bottle station Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
Quality control flags
Reference numbers
Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
3 Bottle station Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Quality control flags
Reference numbers
Vertical spatial coordinates
40 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Density of the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column

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

Full List

BODC Reference Instrument Description Date/Time Location  
814919 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-17 20:22Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
814920 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-17 22:09Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
814932 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-18 00:07Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
814944 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-18 02:02Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
814956 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-18 04:07Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
814968 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-18 06:06Z 54° 34' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
814981 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-18 08:02Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
814993 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-18 10:02Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
815007 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-19 21:07Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815019 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-19 23:17Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815020 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 01:03Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815032 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 04:04Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815044 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 05:16Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815056 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 07:00Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
815068 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 09:07Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
815081 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 11:21Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
815093 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 13:04Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815100 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-20 14:21Z 52° 40' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815112 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-21 20:04Z 54° 35' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
815124 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-21 22:05Z 54° 35' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
815136 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-22 00:03Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
815148 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-22 02:05Z 54° 34' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
815161 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-22 04:07Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
815173 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-22 06:08Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
815185 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-22 08:03Z 54° 35' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
815197 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-22 10:16Z 54° 35' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
815204 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-25 20:39Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815216 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-25 21:53Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
815228 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-25 23:10Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
815241 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 00:04Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815253 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 01:16Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815265 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 01:59Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815277 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 03:09Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815289 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 04:15Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815290 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 05:26Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815308 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 06:09Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815321 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 07:15Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815333 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 08:18Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815345 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 10:11Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
815357 CTD/STD cast 1989-01-26 19:05Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239086 Bottle station 1989-01-17 20:28Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239098 Bottle station 1989-01-17 22:15Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239105 Bottle station 1989-01-18 00:11Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239117 Bottle station 1989-01-18 02:06Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239129 Bottle station 1989-01-18 04:11Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239130 Bottle station 1989-01-18 06:10Z 54° 34' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
1239142 Bottle station 1989-01-18 08:07Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239154 Bottle station 1989-01-18 10:07Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239166 Bottle station 1989-01-19 21:11Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239178 Bottle station 1989-01-19 23:21Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239191 Bottle station 1989-01-20 01:06Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239209 Bottle station 1989-01-20 04:07Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239210 Bottle station 1989-01-20 05:19Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239222 Bottle station 1989-01-20 07:03Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
1239234 Bottle station 1989-01-20 09:09Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
1239246 Bottle station 1989-01-20 11:25Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
1239258 Bottle station 1989-01-20 13:06Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239271 Bottle station 1989-01-20 14:23Z 52° 40' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239283 Bottle station 1989-01-21 20:10Z 54° 35' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
1239295 Bottle station 1989-01-21 22:11Z 54° 35' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239302 Bottle station 1989-01-22 00:06Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239314 Bottle station 1989-01-22 02:09Z 54° 34' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
1239326 Bottle station 1989-01-22 04:10Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239338 Bottle station 1989-01-22 06:11Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239351 Bottle station 1989-01-22 08:08Z 54° 35' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
1239363 Bottle station 1989-01-22 10:21Z 54° 35' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1239375 Bottle station 1989-01-25 20:43Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239387 Bottle station 1989-01-25 21:56Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
1239399 Bottle station 1989-01-25 23:14Z 52° 39' N, 3° 39' E Click for more
1239406 Bottle station 1989-01-26 00:05Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239418 Bottle station 1989-01-26 01:18Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239431 Bottle station 1989-01-26 02:02Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239443 Bottle station 1989-01-26 03:12Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239455 Bottle station 1989-01-26 04:18Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239467 Bottle station 1989-01-26 05:28Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239479 Bottle station 1989-01-26 06:12Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239480 Bottle station 1989-01-26 07:17Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239492 Bottle station 1989-01-26 08:21Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1239511 Bottle station 1989-01-26 10:15Z 52° 39' N, 3° 40' E Click for more
1669222 Bottle station 1989-01-22 06:11Z 54° 34' N, 4° 49' E Click for more
1669234 Bottle station 1989-01-22 08:08Z 54° 35' N, 4° 50' E Click for more
1669246 Bottle station 1989-01-22 10:21Z 54° 35' N, 4° 49' E Click for more

Project Database

# Events Gear Type Parameters Held
32 Deck pump sampling at depth (e.g. Flygt pump) Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
40 CTD frame plus rosette sampler Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Particulate metal concentrations in the water column
Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
Density of the water column
Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column
2 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies

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

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