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Akademik Ioffe 2009

Cruise plan

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)Akademik Ioffe (RUAI)
Cruise identifier2009
Cruise period2009-09-06 — 2009-09-30
StatusCompleted
Port of departureCambridge Bay, Canada
Port of returnKaliningrad, Russian Federation
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesThe cruise was part of the CLIV AR International program, the continuation of the International World Ocean Circulation Program. Specific goals of the cruise were to provide the description of thermohaline ocean structure; to monitor the spatiotemporal changes of transatlantic meridional water and heat transport, to investigate and evaluate the exchange in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean.
Chief scientistAlex V Sokov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology)
ProjectCLIVAR International Programme
NPRCAkademik Ioffe 2009 NPRC akademikioffe_2009.pdf (0.14 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralNorth Atlantic Ocean
SpecificHydrographic section from 59 55 N, 42 30 W to 59 30 N, 04 36 W