RV Corella 12/77
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 12/77 |
| Cruise period | 1977-08-03 — 1977-08-16 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To map the position of the oceanographic front found between Flamborough Head and the Dogger Bank.
2. To investigate physical and biological phenomena (a) on either side of the front and (b) at and adjacent to the thermocline in the stratified water mass forming one side of the front. |
| Chief scientist | Derek Harding (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.31 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of measurements = 1200 |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: S surface only |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 1200 |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: track kilometres = 2222.4 |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of observations = 2222.4 Description: sea and swell |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: track kilometres = 2222.4 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of samples = 100 |
| Nitrite | Quantity: number of samples = 100 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of samples = 100 |
| pH | Quantity: track kilometres = 2222.4 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: track kilometres = 2222.4 |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 50 Description: survey:taxonomy,vertical distribution |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 50 Description: survey:taxonomy,vertical distribution |
| Eggs and larvae | Quantity: number of hauls = 8 Description: survey:taxonomy,vertical distribution |
| Meteorology | |
| Incident radiation | Quantity: number of stations = 12 Description: solarimeter |
