Celtic Explorer CE15013
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Celtic Explorer (45CE) |
| Cruise identifier | CE15013 |
| Cruise period | 2015-08-08 — 2015-08-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Hamburg, Germany |
| Port of return | Bremen, Germany |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Annual BSH North Sea Summer Survey. The surveys were realised since 1998 at a time when thermal stratification is expected to be at its maximum and phytoplankton production has passed its maximum. The surveys include seven coast to coast East-West sections between 54° and 60° N and additional stations between 54° N and the entrance of the English Channel. With the exception of the first survey in 1998, all surveys served a fixed station grid for vertical CTD profiles and water samples. Since 2010, the survey was extended to the north in order to record the transition area between the northern North Sea and the eastern North Atlantic. Objective of the cruise is the determination of the oceanographic and chemical status of the North Sea during summer. |
| Chief scientist | Holger Klein (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency) |
| Cruise report |  (2.73 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.35 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Norwegian Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Track charts | (0.63 MB) |
