RV Maria S. Merian MSM53
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Maria S. Merian (06M2) |
| Cruise identifier | MSM53 |
| Cruise period | 2016-03-31 — 2016-05-09 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Kiel, Germany |
| Port of return | St. John's, Canada |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
Estimate the transport fluctuations of the subpolar gyre as it enters the eastern subpolar North Atlantic at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (CTDO/LADCP, vm-ADCP, tracers, PIES, moored instruments) Quantify the export of deep water in the western boundary current off Flemish Cap at 47°N (moorings, CTOD/LADCP, vm-ADCP, tracers) Obtain continuous time series of the variability of the North Atlantic Current (NAC) inflow and recirculation in the Newfoundland Basin at 47°N (PIES, CTDO/LADCP, vm-ADCP, tracers) Investigate the variability of water masses and transports in Flemish Pass and their relation to changes observed in the boundary current in the southern Labrador Sea (moorings, CTDO/LADCP,vm-ADCP, tracers) Study the variability of water masses and transports in the eastern basin of the subpolar North Atlantic and off the European continental shelf (moorings, CTDO/LADCP,vm-ADCP, tracers) Measure concentrations of anthropogenic transient tracers in seawater on selected stations in the Newfoundland Basin and at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to infer spreading pathways of North Atlantic Deep Water and infer changes in the formation of deep water (tracers, CTDO). |
| Chief scientist | Dagmar Kieke (University of Bremen Institute of Environmental Physics) |
| Cruise report |  (0.44 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Track charts | (0.08 MB) |
