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RRS Challenger CH72B
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Challenger (74CH) |
Cruise identifier | CH72B |
Cruise period | 1990-10-04 — 1990-10-06 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
Objectives | Physical oceanography. Second part of three leg cruise |
Chief scientist | David Huntley (Polytechnic South West Institute of Marine Studies) |
Project | North Sea Project |
Coordinating body | NERC North Sea Project Steering group, POL, UK |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
Specific | Southern North Sea and Dover Straits |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Current profiler (eg ADCP) | Description: Shipborne ADCP |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Physical oceanography | |
Current meters | 52° 40' 0" N 3° 40' 0" E — 24 hour deployment of current meter array |
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 52° 40' 0" N 3° 40' 0" E — 2 pressure sensor tide gauges,10km apart,recovered 12 days later (next cruise)e |
Instrumented wave measurements | 52° 40' 0" N 3° 40' 0" E — 24 hours waverider deployment |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | 52° 40' 0" N 3° 40' 0" E — Ship's radar photography (concurrent with waverider deployment) |