Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
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Cruise identifier | CLI13/78 |
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Cruise period | 1978-10-21 — 1978-11-01 |
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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 | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To moor 6 current meter rigs to supplement the 2 long-term stations
already established in the area.
2. To carry out the fourth of the 1978 water quality surveys of the Tyne
area sponsored by the Department of the Environment.
3. To carry out the fourth of a series of water quality surveys of the
Tees area requested by AEP 2.
4. To test the Miniscanner system for location of current meter rigs.
5. To recover the current meter rig on the Spurn station laid at the
request of AEP 2. |
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Chief scientist | G C Baxter (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Coordinating body | Dept.of Environment |
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Cruise report | (0.23 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) | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: 37 T bottom 94 S bottom, |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 7 |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 4 Description: DRCM |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | Quantity: number of samples = 35 |
Phosphate | Quantity: number of samples = 199 |
Nitrate | |
Nitrite | |
Ammonia | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 2 |