RV Edward Forbes 11/78 (B/5/78)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Edward Forbes (74EF) |
| Cruise identifier | 11/78 (B/5/78) |
| Cruise period | 1978-07-20 — 1978-07-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Bristol Channel survey. |
| Chief scientist | Michael B Jordan (Institute of Marine Environmental Research, Plymouth) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Bristol Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: track kilometres = 450 Description: Continuous recording. |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: track kilometres = 450 Description: Continuous recording. |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: 6 weeks duration. |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Nitrate | Quantity: track kilometres = 450 Description: Continuous recording. |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: track kilometres = 450 Description: Continuous recording. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of samples = 95 |
| Phytoplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 24 |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 24 Description: Monitoring and distribution. |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 187 General station with STD/bottles/additional instruments | Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column Phaeopigment concentrations in the water column Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies |
