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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH115B

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH115B
Short name CH115B
Objectives and Narrative 1. To quantify the hydrodynamical transports and the processes affecting transformations, interactions and fates of particles, biogeochemically important elements and representative contaminants from land sources to the coastal zone.
2. To provide the first integrated environmental data base for a UK coastal region covering seasonal cycles and interannual variability and incorporating measurements of the fluxes of materials and rates of biological productivity.
3. To generate new quantitative understanding of estuarine and coastal zone processes controlling the fluxes and reactivities of both natural and anthropogenic materials.
4. To provide integratable models of these processes as building blocks for comprehensive coastal zone system models which will realistically predict the effects of future environmental change.
Ship RRS Challenger
Departure Port Grimsby, United Kingdom
Departure Date 1994-10-18
Arrival Port Grimsby, United Kingdom
Arrival Date 1994-10-31
Principal Scientist(s) Robin M H Howland (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Associated Project(s) LOIS - RACS
IHB Sea Areas Visited North Sea
Marsden Squares Visited 181;1/181;3/216;1
Work Area Description UK coastal waters from the Wash to Berwick upon Tweed
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 = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2  
Current profiler (eg ADCP) Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway shipborne ADCP  
Optics (eg underwater light levels) Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.  
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.  
Surface measurements underway (T,S) Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements of T,S, transmittance, incident PAR  
Transparency (eg transmissometer) Quantity: number of profiles = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2  
Chemical oceanography  
Ammonia Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurement  
Isotopes Description: radio isotopes in sediments  
Nitrate Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements  
Nitrite Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements  
Other chemical oceanographic measurements Description: sulphate reduction in sediments  
Oxygen Quantity: number of profiles = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2  
Phosphate Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements  
Radioactivity Description: radio isotopes in sediments  
Silicate Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements  
Trace elements Quantity: number of samples = 100
Description: Aluminium determinations from non-toxic supply  
Contamination  
Suspended matter Quantity: number of samples = 50
Description: gravimetric, chlorophyll, lugol's iodine and formalin  
Suspended matter Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.  
Biology and fisheries  
Benthic bacteria/micro-organisms Description: nitrification/denitrification studies on sediment cores  
Pelagic bacteria/micro-organisms Description: nitrification/denitrification studies on sediment cores  
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Quantity: number of samples = 50
Description: gravimetric, chlorophyll, lugol's iodine and formalin  
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Quantity: number of profiles = 20
Description: Neil Brown MK IIIB, up/downwelling PAR radiance meters, fluor.,O2  
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Quantity: number of deployments = 5
Description: UOR towed at fixed depth; T, cond.,transm.,SPM,fluor.  
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements of fluorescence  
Meteorology  
Incident radiation Quantity: track kilometres = 5000
Description: underway measurements of solar radiation  
Geology and geophysics  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of deployments = 50
Description: box coring  

Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations

Latitude Longitude Data type Description
53° 5' N 0° 30' E Other physical oceanographic measurements Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration
53° 5' N 0° 30' E Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration
53° 5' N 0° 30' E Suspended matter Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration
53° 5' N 0° 30' E Transparency (eg transmissometer) Mooring laid in Wash approaches for 6 week duration

Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise

National Oceanographic Database

Summary

# Series Instrument Description Parameters
18 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
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
1 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Density of the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
1 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Concentration of suspended particulate material in 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
1 Meteorological data logger Date and time
Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Solar Radiation
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the atmosphere
1 Pumped water sample Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Date and time
Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
1 Ship's non-toxic supply Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Date and time
Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column
Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
Salinity of the water column
Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
Temperature of the water column
Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
1 Single-beam echosounder Bathymetry and Elevation
Date and time
Horizontal spatial co-ordinates

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

Full List

BODC Reference Instrument Description Date/Time Location  
835291 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-19 15:06Z 53° 7' N, 0° 33' E Click for more
835309 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-20 08:42Z 52° 41' N, 2° 18' E Click for more
835310 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-21 10:31Z 53° 35' N, 0° 53' E Click for more
835322 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-22 09:53Z 53° 33' N, 0° 6' E Click for more
835334 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-23 19:35Z 54° 57' N, 0° 54' W Click for more
835346 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-23 21:25Z 54° 55' N, 1° 19' W Click for more
835358 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-23 22:55Z 55° 4' N, 1° 3' W Click for more
835371 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-24 10:01Z 55° 9' N, 1° 14' W Click for more
835383 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-24 13:25Z 55° 9' N, 1° 0' W Click for more
835395 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-24 17:45Z 55° 12' N, 1° 1' W Click for more
835402 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-25 08:26Z 55° 9' N, 1° 4' W Click for more
835414 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-25 13:54Z 55° 9' N, 1° 10' W Click for more
835426 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-26 09:28Z 55° 9' N, 1° 16' W Click for more
835438 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-27 09:13Z 55° 9' N, 1° 24' W Click for more
835451 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-27 15:34Z 55° 9' N, 1° 29' W Click for more
835463 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-28 09:24Z 55° 48' N, 1° 51' W Click for more
835475 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-29 17:08Z 53° 35' N, 0° 52' E Click for more
835487 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-29 18:42Z 53° 34' N, 0° 45' E Click for more
835499 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-29 20:56Z 53° 30' N, 0° 40' E Click for more
835506 CTD/STD cast 1994-10-29 23:19Z 53° 23' N, 0° 40' E Click for more
952037 Single-beam echosounder 1994-10-18 15:00Z to 1994-10-31 11:02Z 52° 40' N to 56° 0' N; 2° 16' W to 2° 18' E Click for more
952049 Meteorological data logger 1994-10-18 15:00Z to 1994-10-31 11:02Z 52° 40' N to 56° 0' N; 2° 16' W to 2° 18' E Click for more
952050 Ship's non-toxic supply 1994-10-18 15:00Z to 1994-10-31 11:02Z 52° 40' N to 56° 0' N; 2° 16' W to 2° 18' E Click for more
1672592 Pumped water sample 1994-10-19 20:40Z to 1994-10-29 04:24Z 52° 43' N to 56° 0' N; 2° 16' W to 2° 12' E Click for more

Project Database

# Events Gear Type Parameters Held
57 Box core Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
Other fluxes between the bed and the water column
Redox potential in sediment
Nutrient concentrations in sediment pore waters
Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column

Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
Metal fluxes between the bed and the water column
Metadata parameters
Carbon concentrations in sediment
Sediment grain size parameters
Metal concentrations in sediment pore waters
Nitrogen concentrations in sediment
23 CTD frame plus rosette sampler Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material
Nitrogen concentrations in suspended particulate material
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column

Density of the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
49 Day grab
73 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material
Nitrogen concentrations in suspended particulate material

Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column
5 Undulating Oceanographic Recorder Tow

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

References

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