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BODC Cruise Metadata Report for RV Pelagia (64PE) cruise PE121

Introduction

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

Cruise Inventory Information

Long name RV Pelagia (64PE) cruise PE121
Short name PE121
Objectives and Narrative Benthic processes cruise.
Ship RV Pelagia
Departure Port
Departure Date 1998-07-30
Arrival Port
Arrival Date 1998-08-16
Principal Scientist(s) Tjeerd van Weering (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)
Responsible Organisation Unknown
Associated Project(s) OMEX2
IHB Sea Areas Visited North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)
Marsden Squares Visited 146
Work Area Description NW Iberian Shelf/Slope 42-43 N 9-12 W
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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
2 Bottom Lander (miscellaneous instruments) Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Date and time
Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
Salinity of the water column
Temperature of the water column
Vertical spatial coordinates
3 CTD/STD cast 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

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

Full List

BODC Reference Instrument Description Date/Time Location  
553177 Bottom Lander (miscellaneous instruments) 1998-08-13 10:09Z to 1999-05-28 05:54Z 42° 37' N, 9° 52' W Click for more
553189 Bottom Lander (miscellaneous instruments) 1998-08-06 12:03Z to 1998-08-13 05:18Z 42° 37' N, 9° 52' W Click for more
874505 CTD/STD cast 1998-08-03 05:15Z 43° 46' N, 10° 57' W Click for more
874517 CTD/STD cast 1998-08-03 17:14Z 43° 0' N, 10° 20' W Click for more
874529 CTD/STD cast 1998-08-05 08:18Z 42° 36' N, 10° 22' W Click for more

Project Database

# Events Gear Type Parameters Held
16 Box core Amino acids in sediment
Mineralogical composition
Sediment microfossil morphology parameters
Sediment resuspension

Geological sample density
Geological sample radioactivity
Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
Microphytobenthos abundance
Inorganic chemical composition of sediment or rocks
Carbon concentrations in sediment
Nitrogen concentrations in sediment
Sediment grain size parameters
3 CTD frame plus rosette sampler
15 Multicorer Dissolved oxygen parameters for sediments
Sediment resuspension
Nutrient concentrations in sediment pore waters
Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column

Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
Geological sample radioactivity
Carbonate chemistry in sediment pore waters
Carbon concentrations in sediment
Nitrogen concentrations in sediment
Metal concentrations in sediment pore waters
Sediment grain size parameters
6 Piston corer Sediment microfossil morphology parameters
Geological sample magnetic, electrical and acoustic properties
Geological sample density

Sediment water content, porosity and surface area
Inorganic chemical composition of sediment or rocks
12 Bottom Lander Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column
Dissolved oxygen parameters for sediments
Bacteria non taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column
Bacteria morphology and physiology
Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column
Nutrient fluxes between the bed and the water column
Sediment resistivity

Bacteria generic abundance in water bodies
Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column
Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
Suspended particulate material aggregates
Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column
Suspended particulate material grain size parameters
Sediment grain size parameters

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

References

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