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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RV Cirolana (74CZ) cruise CIR9B/93

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RV Cirolana (74CZ) cruise CIR9B/93
Short name CIR9B/93
Objectives and Narrative 1. To identify and quantify the fate of river-borne nutrients entering the Wash and Humber estuary, examining nutrient distriubtions from the river inputs through to the North Sea. (AE0504A0).
2. To examine sediment biogeochemical processes that control the behaviour of nutrients in the North Sea (AE0504A0).
3. To take samples over a grid in the North Sea to improve knowledge of the seasonal signal in nutrient concentration, particuarly phosphate (AE0503A0).
Additional aims:
4. To recover 2 moorings from the Wash, one containing an in situ nitrate analyser. (AE0504A0).
5. To collect air and water samples for low molecular weight hydrocarbon studies. (W Broadgate, P S Liss, S Penkett, University of East Anglia).
Ship RV Cirolana
Departure Port Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Departure Date 1993-09-30
Arrival Port Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Arrival Date 1993-10-11
Principal Scientist(s) Stephen James Malcolm (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory
Associated Project(s) JONUS
IHB Sea Areas Visited North Sea
Marsden Squares Visited 181;1/216;1
Work Area Description Wash, Humber and southern North Sea
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
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Water bottle stations Quantity: number of stations = 141
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Chemical oceanography  
Ammonia Quantity: number of samples = 204
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Nitrate Quantity: number of samples = 204
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Nitrite Quantity: number of samples = 204
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Phosphate Quantity: number of samples = 204
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Silicate Quantity: number of samples = 204
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Contamination  
Other contaminant measurements Quantity: number of samples = 15
Description: air contamination samples  
Suspended matter Quantity: number of samples = 204
Description:  
Geology and geophysics  
Grab Quantity: number of samples = 7
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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
57 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  
551134 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-01 09:44Z 52° 55' N, 0° 15' E Click for more
551146 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-01 15:15Z 53° 0' N, 0° 27' E Click for more
551158 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-01 15:50Z 53° 1' N, 0° 27' E Click for more
551171 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-01 16:53Z 53° 2' N, 0° 25' E Click for more
551183 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-01 17:32Z 53° 3' N, 0° 24' E Click for more
551195 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-02 15:01Z 52° 59' N, 0° 21' E Click for more
551202 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-02 15:48Z 52° 58' N, 0° 24' E Click for more
551214 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-02 16:38Z 53° 0' N, 0° 25' E Click for more
551226 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-02 17:07Z 53° 0' N, 0° 24' E Click for more
551238 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 07:41Z 53° 21' N, 0° 37' E Click for more
551251 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 08:37Z 53° 19' N, 0° 28' E Click for more
551263 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 09:22Z 53° 20' N, 0° 22' E Click for more
551275 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 10:09Z 53° 26' N, 0° 26' E Click for more
551287 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 10:52Z 53° 33' N, 0° 30' E Click for more
551299 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 11:53Z 53° 32' N, 0° 21' E Click for more
551306 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 12:42Z 53° 31' N, 0° 13' E Click for more
551318 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 13:26Z 53° 34' N, 0° 19' E Click for more
551331 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 14:17Z 53° 39' N, 0° 26' E Click for more
551343 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-03 15:26Z 53° 42' N, 0° 11' E Click for more
551355 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 12:52Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551367 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 13:30Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551379 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 14:31Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551380 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 15:30Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551392 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 16:29Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551411 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 17:28Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551423 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 18:10Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551435 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-04 19:29Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551447 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 07:30Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551459 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 08:29Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551460 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 09:29Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551472 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 10:29Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551484 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 11:30Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551496 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 12:30Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551503 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 13:30Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551515 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-05 14:30Z 53° 33' N, 0° 5' E Click for more
551527 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-06 18:46Z 52° 55' N, 1° 30' E Click for more
551539 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-07 06:08Z 53° 31' N, 3° 11' E Click for more
551540 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-07 14:53Z 53° 0' N, 4° 28' E Click for more
551552 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-07 19:13Z 53° 0' N, 3° 48' E Click for more
551564 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-07 22:44Z 53° 0' N, 3° 7' E Click for more
551576 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-08 07:31Z 52° 45' N, 2° 34' E Click for more
551588 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-08 08:56Z 52° 49' N, 2° 21' E Click for more
551607 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-08 11:44Z 52° 43' N, 1° 49' E Click for more
551619 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-08 22:26Z 52° 40' N, 4° 25' E Click for more
551620 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-09 01:01Z 52° 21' N, 4° 16' E Click for more
551632 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-09 20:56Z 51° 55' N, 3° 45' E Click for more
551644 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-09 23:48Z 51° 42' N, 3° 19' E Click for more
551656 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 01:29Z 51° 37' N, 3° 4' E Click for more
551668 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 02:48Z 51° 35' N, 2° 48' E Click for more
551681 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 06:17Z 51° 31' N, 1° 54' E Click for more
551693 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 07:32Z 51° 30' N, 1° 37' E Click for more
551700 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 08:45Z 51° 31' N, 1° 21' E Click for more
551712 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 10:07Z 51° 31' N, 1° 7' E Click for more
551724 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 11:34Z 51° 39' N, 1° 22' E Click for more
551736 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 14:08Z 51° 52' N, 2° 0' E Click for more
551748 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 16:25Z 52° 0' N, 2° 19' E Click for more
551761 CTD/STD cast 1993-10-10 19:29Z 52° 22' N, 2° 0' E Click for more

Project Database

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