Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
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Cruise identifier | 6/77 |
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Cruise period | 1977-04-13 — 1977-04-25 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Trials |
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Objectives | 1. To test the H.I.A.C. particle oounter and new biological instrumentation.
2. To investigate the variations in biological and physical phenomena in
one and two dimension and at different depths in non-frontal systems of the Central Southern North Sea.
3. Recover lost current meters if time permits. |
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Chief scientist | D S Tungate (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.09 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: continuous underway measurements |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: continuous underway measurements |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Description: continuous underway measurements |
Contamination | |
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Suspended matter | Quantity: number of samples = 379 |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | |