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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RRS Discovery (74E3) cruise D207

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RRS Discovery (74E3) cruise D207
Short name D207
Objectives and Narrative 1. To make measurements of the flow of deep and bottom waters passing eastward from the Weddell-Enderby Abyssal Plain to the Southern Indian Ocean via deep topographic gaps to the northeast and southeast of the Kerguelen Plateau. Specifically, to recover the two main current meter arrays deployed during Discovery 200 - an array of 10 moorings (42 current meters) and 2 bottom pressure gauges in the main gap between Crozet and Kerguelen, supplemented with a mooring in the deep cleft immediately west of Crozet Island, and a further 5 moorings (13 current meters) set in the Princess Elizabeth Trough between the Kerguelen Plateau and Antarctica.
2. To use a range of tracers, including the CFCs 10, 11, 12, 113, inorganic nutrients, dissolved oxygen and both oxygen and hydrogen isotopes (including meltwater content) to assist in partitioning the deep throughflow into its constituent watermasses, and to track the onward incursion of the AABW plume into the Indian Ocean.
3. To make discrete measurements of CO2 partial pressure in seawater, total seawater CO2 content and appropriate measures of biological activity throughout the cruise track as a BFOS/PRIME component of the BAS Antarctic Special Topic, and as a necessary determinant of WOCE.
4. To monitor a suite of discontinuous and continuous environmental variables throughout the cruise, including bathymetry from PES, XBT and ADCP, multimet, wave recorder, and thermosalinograph, and where possible to locate the major ocean frontal zones in this sector of the Southern Ocean.
5. To use a range of satellite-derived ice and weather intelligence where possible and appropriate.
6. To obtain water samples for heavy-metal analysis by Dr Frew.
Ship RRS Discovery
Departure Port Cape Town, South Africa
Departure Date 1994-02-19
Arrival Port Port Louis, Mauritius
Arrival Date 1994-03-31
Principal Scientist(s) Robert R Dickson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory
Associated Project(s) WOCE
IHB Sea Areas Visited Indian Ocean
Marsden Squares Visited 402/438/441/442/473/474/475/476/477/508/509/543/544
Work Area Description Southern Indian Ocean, Crozet-Kerguelen, Princess Eliz.Trough, Madagascar Basin
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  
Bathythermograph Quantity: number of profiles = 160
Description: XBTs  
CTD stations Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Current meters Quantity: number of stations = 14
Description: 46 cms recovered  
Current profiler (eg ADCP) Quantity: activity duration in days = 40
Description: cont. shipborne ADCP records  
Geochemical tracers (eg freons) Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description: CFC12, CFC11, CFC113, CFC10, CCl4  
Instrumented wave measurements Quantity: activity duration in days = 40
Description: cont. wave recordings  
Surface measurements underway (T,S) Quantity: activity duration in days = 40
Description: cont.  
Chemical oceanography  
Carbon dioxide Quantity: activity duration in days = 40
Description: cont. pCO2 and TCO2  
Isotopes Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Nitrate Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Nitrite Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Oxygen Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Phosphate Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Silicate Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Contamination  
Trace metals Quantity: number of stations = 33
Description:  
Meteorology  
Other meteorological measurements Quantity: activity duration in days = 40
Description: cont. logging of wind,pressure,air temp,radiation,irradiance,waves  
Routine standard measurements Quantity: activity duration in days = 40
Description: synoptic observations by ship's officals  

Cruise Inventory Mooring/Buoy Operations

Latitude Longitude Data type Description
64° 49' S 85° 7' E Current meters recover 2 meters, 276 days data
46° 25' S 48° 0' E Current meters recover 2 meters, 352 days data
48° 34' S 61° 31' E Current meters recover 2 meters, 629 days data
63° 3' S 83° 34' E Current meters recover 2 meters, 764 days data
48° 0' S 58° 37' E Current meters recover 3 meters, 1095 days data
63° 30' S 83° 57' E Current meters recover 3 meters, 1125 days data
46° 49' S 53° 19' E Current meters recover 3 meters, 717 days data
63° 55' S 84° 19' E Current meters recover 3 meters, 764 days data
64° 22' S 84° 42' E Current meters recover 3 meters, 786 days data
47° 37' S 56° 48' E Current meters recover 4 meters, 1139 days data
47° 25' S 55° 36' E Current meters recover 4 meters, 1243 days data
47° 1' S 53° 4' E Current meters recover 4 meters, 1432 days data
48° 12' S 59° 37' E Current meters recover 4 meters, 891 days data
47° 45' S 58° 3' E Current meters recover 7 meters, 2512 days data
46° 52' S 53° 28' E Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) recover 1 bottom pressure recorder, 365 days data

Summary of BODC Data Holdings for the Cruise

National Oceanographic Database

Summary

# Series Instrument Description Parameters
24 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
32 CTD/STD cast Density of the water column
Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
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  
582182 Single-beam echosounder 1994-02-21 06:32Z to 1994-03-31 03:14Z 66° 3' S to 20° 7' S; 24° 57' E to 85° 9' E Click for more
1006029 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-24 17:57Z 49° 30' S, 41° 56' E Click for more
1006030 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-25 04:43Z 48° 28' S, 43° 6' E Click for more
1006042 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-25 14:41Z 47° 27' S, 44° 7' E Click for more
1006054 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-26 03:05Z 46° 38' S, 44° 59' E Click for more
1006066 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-27 17:30Z 43° 16' S, 50° 37' E Click for more
1006078 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-28 00:17Z 43° 12' S, 51° 33' E Click for more
1006091 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-28 09:04Z 43° 9' S, 53° 12' E Click for more
1006109 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-28 15:00Z 43° 9' S, 53° 59' E Click for more
1006110 CTD/STD cast 1994-02-28 23:52Z 43° 9' S, 54° 34' E Click for more
1006122 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-01 05:59Z 43° 11' S, 54° 28' E Click for more
1006134 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-01 11:41Z 43° 10' S, 55° 9' E Click for more
1006146 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-02 17:41Z 47° 7' S, 54° 32' E Click for more
1006158 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-03 14:51Z 46° 55' S, 53° 36' E Click for more
1006171 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-03 21:41Z 46° 45' S, 53° 6' E Click for more
1006183 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-04 17:24Z 47° 18' S, 55° 16' E Click for more
1006195 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-05 14:12Z 47° 40' S, 57° 35' E Click for more
1006202 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-07 07:38Z 48° 5' S, 59° 8' E Click for more
1006214 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-07 17:17Z 48° 16' S, 60° 0' E Click for more
1006226 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-14 09:13Z 66° 2' S, 84° 33' E Click for more
1006238 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-14 12:56Z 65° 31' S, 84° 37' E Click for more
1006251 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-20 09:11Z 48° 34' S, 61° 27' E Click for more
1006263 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-22 04:03Z 47° 31' S, 56° 12' E Click for more
1006275 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-23 10:54Z 43° 9' S, 53° 33' E Click for more
1006287 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-23 21:51Z 43° 10' S, 54° 54' E Click for more
1006299 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-24 04:42Z 43° 10' S, 55° 41' E Click for more
1006306 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-24 12:37Z 43° 10' S, 56° 33' E Click for more
1006318 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-27 16:40Z 29° 39' S, 53° 28' E Click for more
1006331 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-28 00:10Z 29° 19' S, 54° 10' E Click for more
1006343 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-28 07:06Z 28° 54' S, 54° 45' E Click for more
1006355 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-28 15:21Z 28° 31' S, 55° 29' E Click for more
1006367 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-28 23:07Z 28° 4' S, 56° 5' E Click for more
1006379 CTD/STD cast 1994-03-29 05:32Z 27° 30' S, 56° 9' E Click for more
1299446 Bottle station 1994-02-24 19:41Z 49° 30' S, 41° 56' E Click for more
1299458 Bottle station 1994-02-25 06:24Z 48° 28' S, 43° 6' E Click for more
1299471 Bottle station 1994-02-25 16:09Z 47° 26' S, 44° 7' E Click for more
1299483 Bottle station 1994-02-26 04:27Z 46° 38' S, 44° 59' E Click for more
1299495 Bottle station 1994-02-27 18:48Z 43° 16' S, 50° 37' E Click for more
1299502 Bottle station 1994-02-28 01:45Z 43° 12' S, 51° 33' E Click for more
1299514 Bottle station 1994-02-28 10:24Z 43° 9' S, 53° 12' E Click for more
1299526 Bottle station 1994-02-28 16:34Z 43° 9' S, 53° 59' E Click for more
1299538 Bottle station 1994-03-01 01:23Z 43° 9' S, 54° 34' E Click for more
1299551 Bottle station 1994-03-01 07:32Z 43° 11' S, 54° 28' E Click for more
1299563 Bottle station 1994-03-01 13:15Z 43° 10' S, 55° 9' E Click for more
1299575 Bottle station 1994-03-02 19:13Z 47° 7' S, 54° 32' E Click for more
1299587 Bottle station 1994-03-03 16:20Z 46° 55' S, 53° 36' E Click for more
1299599 Bottle station 1994-03-03 22:54Z 46° 45' S, 53° 6' E Click for more
1299606 Bottle station 1994-03-04 19:10Z 47° 18' S, 55° 16' E Click for more
1299618 Bottle station 1994-03-05 16:02Z 47° 40' S, 57° 35' E Click for more
1299631 Bottle station 1994-03-07 09:38Z 48° 5' S, 59° 8' E Click for more
1299643 Bottle station 1994-03-07 18:59Z 48° 16' S, 60° 0' E Click for more
1299655 Bottle station 1994-03-27 18:21Z 29° 39' S, 53° 28' E Click for more
1299667 Bottle station 1994-03-28 01:57Z 29° 19' S, 54° 10' E Click for more
1299679 Bottle station 1994-03-28 08:52Z 28° 54' S, 54° 45' E Click for more
1299680 Bottle station 1994-03-28 17:04Z 28° 31' S, 55° 29' E Click for more
1299692 Bottle station 1994-03-29 00:48Z 28° 4' S, 56° 5' E Click for more
1299711 Bottle station 1994-03-29 07:23Z 27° 30' S, 56° 9' E Click for more

Project Database

# Events Gear Type Parameters Held
32 CTD frame plus rosette sampler Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column
Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
Temperature of the water column
Salinity of the water column
Stable isotopes in water bodies
Silicate concentration parameters in the water column
Other halocarbon concentrations in water bodies
Density of the water column
Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column
Chlorofluorocarbon concentrations in the water column
141 Expendable Bathythermograph Temperature of the water column
661 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply Salinity of the water column
7309 Shipborne Acoustic Doppler Current Profile

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

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