RRS Charles Darwin CD43
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
| Cruise identifier | CD43 |
| Cruise period | 1989-10-20 — 1989-11-22 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Troon, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Troon, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | This physical oceanography cruise was a Joint UMIST/IOSDL cruise to the Faeroes region. The aims were to investigate the transfer of momentum, heat, water, and aerosols between the atmosphere and ocean, particularly under conditions of high winds or of changing sea state, and to continue investigations of the hydrographic structure of the Iceland-Faeroe Bank Channel |
| Chief scientist | Michael H Smith (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Atmospheric Physics Research Group), Peter K Taylor (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory), W John Gould (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (1.85 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | North Atlantic |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 95 |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 81 |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: number of stations = 81 |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 |
| Instrumented wave measurements | Description: Shipborne Wave Recorder |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: ice observations |
