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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH128B

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RRS Challenger (74CH) cruise CH128B
Short name CH128B
Objectives and Narrative This cruise was the last of a series of six aimed at defining the nature of the processes occurring at the shelf edge, their seasonal variability and their impact on fluxes of nutrients and carbon across the shelf and into the seabed sediments. Specific objectives included:
1) Survey of the slope current along the slope to complement time series observations by current meter and adcp.
2) Observation of the internal tide generated at the shelf edge, its propagation and dissipation.
3) Completion of the sampling programme of seabed sediments by coring over the seasonal cycle.
4) Final survey of T/S structure, nutrients, pigments and production in the SES box.
5) Recovery of the SES mooring array.
Ship RRS Challenger
Departure Port Fairlie, United Kingdom
Departure Date 1996-07-26
Arrival Port Fairlie, United Kingdom
Arrival Date 1996-08-08
Principal Scientist(s) S Martyn Harvey (Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory)
Responsible Organisation Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
Associated Project(s) Shelf Edge Study (SES), a component of LOIS
IHB Sea Areas Visited North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)
Marsden Squares Visited 181;4
Work Area Description Hebridean Shelf and shelf edge west of Scotland
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

Chemical oceanography  
Isotopes Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Meiofauna investigations, Bioturbation, C14 Dating  
Other chemical oceanographic measurements Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Organic Geochemistry  
Radioactivity Quantity: number of samples = 9
Description: Radionuclide profiles  
Radioactivity Quantity: number of samples = 15
Description: Radionuclide profiles  
Radioactivity Quantity: number of samples = 1
Description: Radionuclides  
Radioactivity Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Radionuclide profiles  
Contamination  
Suspended matter Quantity: number of profiles = 14
Description: Particle profiles using flash photography  
Biology and fisheries  
Crustaceans Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Meiofauna investigations, Bioturbation, C14 Dating  
Molluscs Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Meiofauna investigations, Bioturbation, C14 Dating  
Other biological/fisheries measurement Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Meiofauna investigations, Bioturbation, C14 Dating  
Particulate organic matter (inc POC, PON) Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Particulate Organic Carbon  
Phytoplankton Quantity: number of profiles = 14
Description: Particle profiles using flash photography  
Zooplankton Quantity: number of profiles = 14
Description: Particle profiles using flash photography  
Geology and geophysics  
Bottom photography Quantity: number of deployments = 9
Description: Bed Hop Camera (25 frames/ deployment)  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Organic Geochemistry  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Meiofauna investigations, Bioturbation, C14 Dating  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of samples = 1
Description: Radionuclides  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Oxygen uptake and particle size analysis  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of samples = 3
Description: Sulphate reduction rate  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of samples = 15
Description: Radionuclide profiles  
Core - soft bottom Quantity: number of samples = 6
Description: Radionuclide profiles  

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
11 Bottle station Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Quality control flags
Reference numbers
Vertical spatial coordinates
15 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
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
21 CTD/STD cast Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
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
1 Pumped water sample Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Date and time
Horizontal spatial co-ordinates
Phaeopigment concentrations 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  
861119 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-03 21:01Z 56° 36' N, 9° 17' W Click for more
861120 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-05 23:01Z 57° 0' N, 10° 0' W Click for more
861132 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-27 16:09Z 55° 27' N, 6° 19' W Click for more
861144 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-28 01:48Z 55° 55' N, 8° 0' W Click for more
861156 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-28 22:46Z 56° 31' N, 9° 18' W Click for more
861168 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-29 05:22Z 56° 27' N, 9° 9' W Click for more
861181 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-30 01:02Z 56° 27' N, 8° 57' W Click for more
861193 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-01 20:43Z 56° 27' N, 9° 39' W Click for more
861200 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-02 06:20Z 56° 42' N, 9° 28' W Click for more
861212 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-02 17:26Z 56° 40' N, 9° 12' W Click for more
861224 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-03 03:13Z 56° 37' N, 9° 1' W Click for more
861236 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-05 19:00Z 57° 0' N, 10° 0' W Click for more
861248 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-06 20:37Z 56° 26' N, 9° 10' W Click for more
861261 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-27 21:07Z 55° 40' N, 7° 10' W Click for more
861273 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-28 01:10Z 55° 55' N, 8° 0' W Click for more
861285 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-28 07:53Z 56° 10' N, 8° 31' W Click for more
861297 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-28 18:33Z 56° 31' N, 9° 18' W Click for more
861304 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-29 00:29Z 56° 31' N, 9° 19' W Click for more
861316 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-29 03:17Z 56° 28' N, 9° 18' W Click for more
861328 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-29 18:10Z 56° 26' N, 9° 9' W Click for more
861341 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-29 23:49Z 56° 27' N, 9° 6' W Click for more
861353 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-30 01:57Z 56° 27' N, 9° 3' W Click for more
861365 CTD/STD cast 1996-07-30 02:48Z 56° 28' N, 9° 3' W Click for more
861377 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-01 14:40Z 56° 27' N, 9° 18' W Click for more
861389 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-02 03:10Z 56° 42' N, 9° 26' W Click for more
861390 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-02 04:48Z 56° 42' N, 9° 27' W Click for more
861408 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-02 10:18Z 56° 43' N, 9° 24' W Click for more
861421 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-02 13:22Z 56° 37' N, 9° 36' W Click for more
861433 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-03 01:00Z 56° 39' N, 9° 7' W Click for more
861445 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-03 02:14Z 56° 38' N, 9° 4' W Click for more
861457 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-03 03:57Z 56° 37' N, 9° 0' W Click for more
861469 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-03 04:44Z 56° 36' N, 8° 56' W Click for more
861470 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-04 03:24Z 56° 27' N, 9° 3' W Click for more
861482 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-05 21:13Z 57° 0' N, 10° 0' W Click for more
861494 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-06 19:27Z 56° 26' N, 9° 10' W Click for more
861501 CTD/STD cast 1996-08-04 02:09Z 56° 27' N, 9° 3' W Click for more
1656150 Bottle station 1996-07-30 02:09Z 56° 27' N, 9° 3' W Click for more
1656162 Bottle station 1996-07-30 03:02Z 56° 28' N, 9° 3' W Click for more
1656174 Bottle station 1996-08-01 21:23Z 56° 27' N, 9° 39' W Click for more
1656186 Bottle station 1996-08-02 03:47Z 56° 42' N, 9° 26' W Click for more
1656198 Bottle station 1996-08-02 05:22Z 56° 42' N, 9° 27' W Click for more
1656205 Bottle station 1996-08-02 14:17Z 56° 37' N, 9° 36' W Click for more
1656217 Bottle station 1996-08-04 02:22Z 56° 27' N, 9° 3' W Click for more
1656229 Bottle station 1996-08-06 19:48Z 56° 26' N, 9° 10' W Click for more
1656230 Bottle station 1996-07-27 16:19Z 55° 27' N, 6° 19' W Click for more
1656242 Bottle station 1996-07-27 21:12Z 55° 40' N, 7° 10' W Click for more
1656254 Bottle station 1996-07-28 08:02Z 56° 10' N, 8° 31' W Click for more
1690906 Pumped water sample 1996-07-28 07:25Z to 1996-08-07 09:25Z 56° 8' N to 57° 0' N; 10° 0' W to 8° 28' W Click for more

Project Database

# Events Gear Type Parameters Held
9 Underwater camera system
62 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply Salinity of the water column

Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Radioactivity in water bodies
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
24 Multicorer Concentration of organic matter in sediments
Other fluxes between the bed and the water column
Stable isotopes in sediment

Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
Geological sample radioactivity
Concentration of inorganic sulphur species in sediment
3269 Shipborne Acoustic Doppler Current Profile
36 CTD frame plus rosette sampler Transmittance and attenuance of the water column
Particulate metal concentrations in the water column
Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
Concentration of inorganic halogens in water bodies
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column
Density of the water column
Particulate total and organic phosphorus concentrations in the water column
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Radioactivity in water bodies
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
Concentration of inorganic sulphur species in the water column
Concentration of silicon species in the water column

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

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