RV Clione CLI5B/87
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | CLI5B/87 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1987-04-21 — 1987-04-30 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Stranraer, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Objectives | 1. To service 6 standard current meter moorings in the Eastern Irish Sea positions M,P,Q,R,V and W, recover mooring S, and establish 2 new moorings at positions U and X.
2. To deploy and recover the Near Bed Velocity recorder (NBVR) and its 3 guard buoys at position 7. 3. To collect bottom and surface water samples for Thorium analysis plus ancillary sediment samples using box corer and transmissometer profiles at up to 8 stations. 4. To make DCRM; CTD and turbidity measurements and collect suspended sediment samples at hourly intervals for one tidal cycle at two anchored stations. 5. To undertake CTD sections between the Isle of Man and the Scottish/English/Welsh coast. 6. To release Sea Bed Drifters at two sites east of the Isle of Wight. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | J Alan Durance (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | English Channel | ||||||||
| Specific | Eastern Irish Sea | ||||||||
| Track charts |  | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 44 | ||||||||
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: number of samples = 2 | ||||||||
| Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: new current meter stations south of station W were established. | ||||||||
| Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: DRCM;12 deployed;12 recovered;50 days | ||||||||
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Near Bed Velocity recorder. | ||||||||
| Contamination | |||||||||
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of samples = 2 | ||||||||
| Trace metals | Quantity: number of samples = 8 | ||||||||
| Geology and geophysics | |||||||||
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 8 Description: box core stations. | ||||||||
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of profiles = 8 Description: transmissometer profiles | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 CTD/STD cast | Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates
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