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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RRS James Clark Ross (74JC) cruise JR19980114 (JR28)

Introduction

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Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RRS James Clark Ross (74JC) cruise JR19980114 (JR28)
Short name JR19980114 (JR28)
Objectives and Narrative The Pelagic Ecosystem Studies Core Programme is aimed understanding the processes generating variability in the South Georgia marine ecosystem, with a particular emphasis on the interannual variation. JR28 was the third execution of the programme.

The ship steamed to the head of a standard oceanographic transect just to the north of the Maurice Ewing Bank (MEB). The transect consisted of 22 hydrographic stations, 35km apart. On each station a CTD profile with water bottle samples was taken to generate profiles of standard physical characters and allow chemical analyses and the determination of chlorophyll concentration. There was also simultaneous squid jigging undertaken. Zooplankton net hauls were used to characterise the zooplankton community on each station and a chlorophyll fluorescence profile was also obtained using an Aquapack system. On a number of stations extra water and zooplankton samples were obtained for detailed biochemical analyses. In the vicinity of South Georgia surveys of two mesoscale (80 x 80km) boxes consisting of 5 sets of paired transects were conducted. A towed undulating oceanographic recorder (UOR) was used to characterise the upper150 m water characteristics and a multifrequency acoustic system was used to describe the distribution of krill and other acoustic scatterers. Underway chemistry and standard analyses of the surface water were also undertaken. A series of standard station activities of CTD, water bottle samples, RMT8 and zooplankton net hauls were carried out at on-shelf and off-shelf stations within each survey area. Transecting was also undertaken to characterise the region of the north shelf not included in the survey boxes. Experimental work on zooplankton grazing, excretion and development rates was also undertaken. Most of the data were validated and calibrated at sea and are available for comparative analyses with data from the previous two seasons. The preliminary figures indicate that there are some significant differences from earlier surveys in both the physical and biological regimes.
Ship RRS James Clark Ross
Departure Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Departure Date 1998-01-14
Arrival Port Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Arrival Date 1998-02-07
Principal Scientist(s) Julian Priddle (British Antarctic Survey)
Responsible Organisation British Antarctic Survey
Associated Project(s) PES Core Programme II
IHB Sea Areas Visited South Atlantic Ocean
Marsden Squares Visited 448/483/484/485
Work Area Description Southern Ocean
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Work Area Bounding Polygon
Southern Limit unknown
Northern Limit unknown
Western Limit unknown
Eastern Limit unknown

Cruise Inventory Datasets

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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
39 Bottle station Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
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
1 Multiple instrument types Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies
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
Reference numbers
Silicate concentration parameters 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  
2211462 Multiple instrument types 1998-02-01 22:01Z to 1998-02-02 07:17Z 53° 45' S to 53° 16' S; 38° 28' W to 38° 16' W Click for more
2293657 Bottle station 1998-01-17 11:03Z 47° 52' S, 43° 20' W Click for more
2293669 Bottle station 1998-01-17 16:27Z 48° 10' S, 43° 8' W Click for more
2293670 Bottle station 1998-01-17 21:42Z 48° 27' S, 42° 55' W Click for more
2293682 Bottle station 1998-01-18 04:19Z 48° 44' S, 42° 45' W Click for more
2293694 Bottle station 1998-01-18 10:15Z 49° 2' S, 42° 34' W Click for more
2293701 Bottle station 1998-01-18 14:38Z 49° 19' S, 42° 22' W Click for more
2293713 Bottle station 1998-01-18 18:53Z 49° 36' S, 42° 10' W Click for more
2293725 Bottle station 1998-01-18 23:11Z 49° 54' S, 41° 57' W Click for more
2293737 Bottle station 1998-01-19 03:48Z 50° 11' S, 41° 44' W Click for more
2293749 Bottle station 1998-01-19 08:13Z 50° 27' S, 41° 31' W Click for more
2293750 Bottle station 1998-01-19 13:34Z 50° 44' S, 41° 16' W Click for more
2293762 Bottle station 1998-01-19 19:17Z 51° 2' S, 41° 2' W Click for more
2293774 Bottle station 1998-01-20 00:25Z 51° 18' S, 40° 49' W Click for more
2293786 Bottle station 1998-01-20 06:11Z 51° 37' S, 40° 36' W Click for more
2293798 Bottle station 1998-01-20 11:11Z 51° 54' S, 40° 22' W Click for more
2293805 Bottle station 1998-01-20 16:11Z 52° 9' S, 40° 9' W Click for more
2293817 Bottle station 1998-01-20 21:12Z 52° 27' S, 39° 54' W Click for more
2293829 Bottle station 1998-01-21 02:27Z 52° 45' S, 39° 39' W Click for more
2293830 Bottle station 1998-01-21 08:16Z 53° 2' S, 39° 24' W Click for more
2293842 Bottle station 1998-01-21 13:25Z 53° 19' S, 39° 9' W Click for more
2293854 Bottle station 1998-01-21 18:46Z 53° 36' S, 38° 54' W Click for more
2293866 Bottle station 1998-01-21 23:20Z 53° 53' S, 38° 39' W Click for more
2293878 Bottle station 1998-01-24 23:21Z 53° 51' S, 35° 24' W Click for more
2293891 Bottle station 1998-01-25 05:25Z 54° 4' S, 35° 55' W Click for more
2293909 Bottle station 1998-01-25 22:25Z 54° 15' S, 35° 43' W Click for more
2293910 Bottle station 1998-01-26 05:08Z 54° 2' S, 35° 13' W Click for more
2293922 Bottle station 1998-01-26 22:27Z 54° 11' S, 35° 3' W Click for more
2293934 Bottle station 1998-01-27 03:58Z 54° 23' S, 35° 32' W Click for more
2293946 Bottle station 1998-01-27 22:16Z 54° 32' S, 35° 23' W Click for more
2293958 Bottle station 1998-01-28 04:00Z 54° 19' S, 34° 52' W Click for more
2293971 Bottle station 1998-01-28 19:17Z 54° 21' S, 34° 27' W Click for more
2293983 Bottle station 1998-01-30 22:17Z 53° 49' S, 38° 52' W Click for more
2293995 Bottle station 1998-01-31 04:12Z 53° 28' S, 38° 59' W Click for more
2294009 Bottle station 1998-01-31 22:26Z 53° 25' S, 38° 42' W Click for more
2294010 Bottle station 1998-02-01 04:04Z 53° 47' S, 38° 34' W Click for more
2294022 Bottle station 1998-02-01 22:26Z 53° 45' S, 38° 16' W Click for more
2294034 Bottle station 1998-02-02 04:23Z 53° 23' S, 38° 24' W Click for more
2294046 Bottle station 1998-02-02 22:04Z 53° 21' S, 38° 4' W Click for more
2294058 Bottle station 1998-02-03 03:38Z 53° 42' S, 37° 58' W Click for more

Project Database

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References

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