BODC Cruise Metadata Report for Unknown self-propelled small boat cruise RATS/CTD167

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information
A summary of BODC data holdings for the cruise from the
- National Oceanographic Database
- Projects Database
References - including cruise tracks and cruise reports

Long name	Unknown self-propelled small boat cruise RATS/CTD167
Short name	RATS/CTD167
Objectives and Narrative	The RaTS programme (Rothera Oceanographic and Biological Time Series) involves the long ter m monitoring of a nearshore marine environment and is focussed around two broad aims, 1) Provide a suite of oceanographic data that would provide environmental background to aid interpretation of the nearshore marine ecology and 2) Test a series of broad hypotheses concerning the pelagic-benthic coupling and environmental forcing of the nearshore environment. On an approximate weekly basis, an upper water column CTD cast is deployed with a discrete water sample taken at 15m. The water sample is analysed for macronutrients, chlorophyll, dissolved organic carbon, oxygen isotopes and microbial community.
Ship	Unknown self-propelled small boat
Departure Port	Rothera, Antarctica
Departure Date	1999-02-10
Arrival Port	Rothera, Antarctica
Arrival Date	1999-02-10
Principal Scientist(s)	Andrew Clarke (British Antarctic Survey)
Responsible Organisation	British Antarctic Survey
Associated Project(s)	RaTS
IHB Sea Areas Visited	South Atlantic Ocean
Marsden Squares Visited	522
Work Area Description	Ryder Bay northern Marguerite Bay Antarctica
Unable to lookup cruise bounds at this time
Work Area Bounding Polygon
Southern Limit	unknown
Northern Limit	unknown
Western Limit	unknown
Eastern Limit	unknown

Physical oceanography
CTD stations	Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: full CTD profile and water sample at 15m
Water bottle stations	Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: full CTD profile and water sample at 15m

No information on datasets is currently available

# Series	Instrument Description	Parameters
1	CTD/STD cast	Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies Density of the water column Reference numbers Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column

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

BODC Reference	Instrument Description	Date/Time	Location
758288	CTD/STD cast	1999-02-10 12:40Z	67° 34' S, 68° 13' W	Click for more

# Events	Gear Type	Parameters Held
1	CTD frame plus rosette sampler	Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column Phosphate concentration parameters in the water column Silicate concentration parameters in the water column Ammonium and ammonia concentration parameters in water bodies Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column

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