RRS Charles Darwin CD44
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) | ||||
| Cruise identifier | CD44 | ||||
| Cruise period | 1989-11-24 — 1989-12-02 | ||||
| Status | Completed | ||||
| Port of departure | Troon, United Kingdom | ||||
| Port of return | Campbeltown, United Kingdom | ||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||
| Objectives | 1. To collect large volume water samples and CTD profiles at standard positions between the Sound of Mull and the shelf edge of the Hebrides.
2. To work the CTD stations of the Anton Dohrn Seamount (Ellett Line) section between the shelf edge and Rockall. 3. To work a CTD section west of Rockall to Porcupine Bank. 4. To work CTD sections across the shelf edge west of Ireland as time and weather permit. | ||||
| Chief scientist | Anton Edwards (Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory) | ||||
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) | ||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) | ||||
| Specific | NE and NW Atlantic Ocean | ||||
| Track charts |  | ||||
| Measurements | |||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 81 | ||||
| Chemical oceanography | |||||
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 28 | ||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||
| 80 CTD/STD cast | Vertical spatial coordinates Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column
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