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Akademik Sergey Vavilov 36

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)Akademik Sergey Vavilov (RUSG)
Cruise identifier36
Cruise period2012-12-08 — 2013-03-26
StatusCompleted
Port of departureUshuaia, Argentina
Port of returnUshuaia, Argentina
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesRV Akademik SergeyVavilov Cruise 36 was a contribution to the Russian CLIVAR and World Ocean Research Programme. Underway measurements of the surface temperature, conductivity and currents in the upper 800 m were designed to enable the ocean circulation in Drake Passage and the Scotia Sea to be mapped and in particular the course and short-term variability of the Subantarctic, Polar and Southern Front of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current within the region to be determined. The main goal is austral summer monitoring of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Chief scientistSergey V Gladyshev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology)
ProjectClimate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR)
Cruise reportAkademik Sergey Vavilov 36 cruise report akademiksergeyvavilov_36.pdf (1.65 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralSouth West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W)
Southern Ocean
SpecificCape Horn, Falkland Islands, South Shetland Islands.