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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RV Cirolana (74CZ) cruise CIR8/92

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RV Cirolana (74CZ) cruise CIR8/92
Short name CIR8/92
Objectives and Narrative 1. To identify and quantify the fate of river-borne nutrients entering the Wash and Humber estuary, examining nutrient distributions and critical processes from the river inputs through to the North Sea in subtidals sediments and overlying water.
2. To measure factors affecting benthic nutrient recycling in subtidal sediments along a transect across the North Sea.
3. To test the deployment and recovery of new COSEDS equipment.
4. To obtain samples over a grid in the southern North Sea to improve knowledge of the seasonal signal in nutrients (particularly phosphate).
Ship RV Cirolana
Departure Port Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Departure Date 1992-07-29
Arrival Port Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Arrival Date 1992-08-06
Principal Scientist(s) Juan Brown (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory
Associated Project(s) JONUS 9
IHB Sea Areas Visited North Sea
Marsden Squares Visited 181;1/181;3/216;1/216;3
Work Area Description Wash and Humber Estuary
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 = 63
Description:  
Surface measurements underway (T,S) Quantity: activity duration in days = 8
Description: continuous T & S  
Surface measurements underway (T,S) Quantity: number of samples = 81
Description: salinity only  
Chemical oceanography  
Ammonia Quantity: number of samples = 144
Description:  
Nitrate Quantity: number of samples = 144
Description:  
Nitrite Quantity: number of samples = 144
Description:  
Phosphate Quantity: number of samples = 144
Description:  
Silicate Quantity: number of samples = 144
Description:  
Contamination  
Suspended matter Quantity: number of samples = 144
Description:  
Biology and fisheries  
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Quantity: number of samples = 8
Description:  
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Quantity: number of samples = 144
Description:  
Geology and geophysics  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of cores = 44
Description:  
Dredge Quantity: number of deployments = 1
Description:  
Grab Quantity: number of samples = 20
Description:  
Other geological/geophysical measurements Quantity: number of deployments = 2
Description: Underwater television.  

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
65 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  
337882 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-29 22:34Z 53° 30' N, 3° 9' E Click for more
337894 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-30 12:34Z 54° 8' N, 2° 28' E Click for more
337901 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 12:32Z 53° 34' N, 0° 24' E Click for more
337913 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 13:06Z 53° 36' N, 0° 22' E Click for more
337925 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 13:39Z 53° 35' N, 0° 19' E Click for more
337937 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 14:43Z 53° 32' N, 0° 20' E Click for more
337949 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 15:20Z 53° 33' N, 0° 16' E Click for more
337950 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 15:45Z 53° 30' N, 0° 18' E Click for more
337962 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 16:49Z 53° 31' N, 0° 13' E Click for more
337974 CTD/STD cast 1992-07-31 22:36Z 53° 39' N, 0° 13' W Click for more
337986 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 10:16Z 53° 38' N, 0° 17' E Click for more
337998 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 12:01Z 53° 27' N, 0° 21' E Click for more
338001 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 12:40Z 53° 27' N, 0° 30' E Click for more
338013 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 13:39Z 53° 21' N, 0° 24' E Click for more
338025 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 14:30Z 53° 16' N, 0° 27' E Click for more
338037 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 15:12Z 53° 10' N, 0° 28' E Click for more
338049 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 18:51Z 52° 55' N, 0° 15' E Click for more
338050 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 19:27Z 52° 54' N, 0° 15' E Click for more
338062 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 19:56Z 52° 56' N, 0° 15' E Click for more
338074 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 20:34Z 52° 57' N, 0° 16' E Click for more
338086 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 21:04Z 52° 56' N, 0° 18' E Click for more
338098 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 21:32Z 52° 55' N, 0° 21' E Click for more
338105 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-01 22:29Z 52° 55' N, 0° 24' E Click for more
338117 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 06:37Z 52° 57' N, 0° 21' E Click for more
338129 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 07:33Z 52° 58' N, 0° 18' E Click for more
338130 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 08:07Z 53° 0' N, 0° 21' E Click for more
338142 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 08:33Z 52° 58' N, 0° 22' E Click for more
338154 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 09:02Z 52° 57' N, 0° 25' E Click for more
338166 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 09:37Z 53° 1' N, 0° 23' E Click for more
338178 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 10:07Z 53° 0' N, 0° 25' E Click for more
338191 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 10:41Z 52° 59' N, 0° 27' E Click for more
338209 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 11:26Z 53° 1' N, 0° 28' E Click for more
338210 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 11:51Z 53° 1' N, 0° 27' E Click for more
338222 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 12:18Z 53° 2' N, 0° 25' E Click for more
338234 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 12:50Z 53° 1' N, 0° 30' E Click for more
338246 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 13:14Z 53° 3' N, 0° 27' E Click for more
338258 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 13:48Z 53° 4' N, 0° 25' E Click for more
338271 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 15:21Z 53° 8' N, 0° 34' E Click for more
338283 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 16:06Z 53° 13' N, 0° 40' E Click for more
338295 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 17:08Z 53° 10' N, 0° 49' E Click for more
338302 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 21:42Z 53° 4' N, 1° 0' E Click for more
338314 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 22:29Z 53° 0' N, 1° 10' E Click for more
338326 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 23:11Z 53° 0' N, 1° 21' E Click for more
338338 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-02 23:58Z 52° 55' N, 1° 30' E Click for more
338351 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-03 13:04Z 53° 0' N, 4° 29' E Click for more
338363 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-03 15:49Z 53° 0' N, 3° 48' E Click for more
338375 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-03 18:35Z 53° 0' N, 3° 8' E Click for more
338387 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-03 20:53Z 52° 52' N, 2° 37' E Click for more
338399 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-03 23:20Z 52° 46' N, 2° 5' E Click for more
338406 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-04 00:36Z 52° 43' N, 1° 49' E Click for more
338418 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-04 08:32Z 52° 40' N, 4° 26' E Click for more
338431 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-04 10:43Z 52° 21' N, 4° 16' E Click for more
338443 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-04 23:05Z 52° 4' N, 3° 54' E Click for more
338455 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 01:08Z 51° 49' N, 3° 32' E Click for more
338467 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 03:10Z 51° 37' N, 3° 5' E Click for more
338479 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 05:28Z 51° 34' N, 2° 33' E Click for more
338480 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 08:55Z 51° 31' N, 1° 54' E Click for more
338492 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 11:04Z 51° 31' N, 1° 20' E Click for more
338511 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 12:45Z 51° 30' N, 1° 7' E Click for more
338523 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 13:51Z 51° 31' N, 0° 58' E Click for more
338535 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 15:42Z 51° 34' N, 1° 15' E Click for more
338547 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 17:28Z 51° 46' N, 1° 35' E Click for more
338559 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 19:54Z 52° 0' N, 2° 20' E Click for more
338560 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 22:03Z 52° 22' N, 2° 0' E Click for more
338572 CTD/STD cast 1992-08-05 23:01Z 52° 27' N, 1° 49' E Click for more

Project Database

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