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RV Cirolana CIR8/92

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)RV Cirolana (74CZ)
Cruise identifierCIR8/92
Cruise period1992-07-29 — 1992-08-06
StatusCompleted
Port of departureLowestoft, United Kingdom
Port of returnLowestoft, United Kingdom
Objectives1. To identify and quantify the fate of river-borne nutrients entering the Wash and Humber estuary, examining nutrient distributions and critical processes from the river inputs through to the North Sea in subtidals sediments and overlying water.
2. To measure factors affecting benthic nutrient recycling in subtidal sediments along a transect across the North Sea.
3. To test the deployment and recovery of new COSEDS equipment.
4. To obtain samples over a grid in the southern North Sea to improve knowledge of the seasonal signal in nutrients (particularly phosphate).
Chief scientistJuan Brown (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
ProjectJONUS 9
Coordinating bodyMAFF
Cruise reportRV Cirolana CIR8/92 cruise report ci8_92.pdf (0.13 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralNorth Sea
SpecificWash and Humber Estuary
Track chartsRV Cirolana CIR8/92 cruise track — trk3805.html
Measurements 
Physical oceanography 
Surface measurements underway (T,S)Quantity: activity duration in days = 8
Description: continuous T & S
Surface measurements underway (T,S)Quantity: number of samples = 81
Description: salinity only
CTD stationsQuantity: number of stations = 63
Chemical oceanography 
PhosphateQuantity: number of samples = 144
NitrateQuantity: number of samples = 144
NitriteQuantity: number of samples = 144
AmmoniaQuantity: number of samples = 144
SilicateQuantity: number of samples = 144
Contamination 
Suspended matterQuantity: number of samples = 144
Biology and fisheries 
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)Quantity: number of samples = 144
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)Quantity: number of samples = 8
Geology and geophysics 
DredgeQuantity: number of deployments = 1
GrabQuantity: number of samples = 20
Core - soft bottomQuantity: number of cores = 44
Other geological/geophysical measurementsQuantity: number of deployments = 2
Description: Underwater television.
Data held at BODC Get data
Series/Profiles 
65  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

BODC idDate/TimeLocationDoc.
3379861992-08-01 10:16 53° 38' 15" N  0° 17' 15" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337986
3380741992-08-01 20:34 52° 57' 47" N  0° 16' 17" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338074
3381661992-08-02 09:37 53° 1' 31" N  0° 23' 41" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338166
3382101992-08-02 11:51 53° 1' 28" N  0° 27' 1" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338210
3383871992-08-03 20:53 52° 53' 2" N  2° 37' 9" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338387
3384181992-08-04 08:32 52° 40' 1" N  4° 26' 7" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338418
3385351992-08-05 15:42 51° 34' 34" N  1° 14' 43" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338535
3379491992-07-31 15:20 53° 32' 54" N  0° 16' 20" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337949
3380981992-08-01 21:32 52° 55' 43" N  0° 21' 13" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338098
3381051992-08-01 22:29 52° 55' 39" N  0° 23' 51" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338105
3383141992-08-02 22:29 52° 59' 49" N  1° 10' 9" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338314
3383381992-08-02 23:58 52° 55' 27" N  1° 30' 7" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338338
3383991992-08-03 23:20 52° 46' 49" N  2° 5' 8" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338399
3384061992-08-04 00:36 52° 43' 44" N  1° 49' 13" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338406
3385231992-08-05 13:51 51° 30' 54" N  0° 58' 18" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338523
3379251992-07-31 13:39 53° 35' 14" N  0° 19' 30" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337925
3379371992-07-31 14:43 53° 32' 7" N  0° 20' 39" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337937
3379501992-07-31 15:45 53° 30' 19" N  0° 17' 50" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337950
3380011992-08-01 12:40 53° 27' 1" N  0° 29' 44" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338001
3380861992-08-01 21:04 52° 56' 30" N  0° 18' 34" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338086
3381421992-08-02 08:33 52° 58' 54" N  0° 23' 5" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338142
3381781992-08-02 10:07 53° 0' 22" N  0° 25' 23" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338178
3382951992-08-02 17:08 53° 10' 12" N  0° 49' 55" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338295
3379131992-07-31 13:06 53° 36' 47" N  0° 22' 48" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337913
3380491992-08-01 18:51 52° 55' 20" N  0° 15' 36" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338049
3381171992-08-02 06:37 52° 56' 55" N  0° 21' 26" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338117
3381301992-08-02 08:07 52° 59' 57" N  0° 21' 17" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338130
3381911992-08-02 10:41 52° 59' 13" N  0° 27' 13" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338191
3382091992-08-02 11:26 53° 1' 14" N  0° 28' 45" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338209
3383021992-08-02 21:42 53° 4' 7" N  1° 0' 16" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338302
3383261992-08-02 23:11 53° 0' 0" N  1° 21' 23" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338326
3383631992-08-03 15:49 53° 0' 1" N  3° 48' 6" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338363
3384671992-08-05 03:10 51° 37' 24" N  3° 5' 28" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338467
3385591992-08-05 19:54 52° 0' 4" N  2° 20' 16" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338559
3385601992-08-05 22:03 52° 22' 2" N  2° 0' 2" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338560
3385721992-08-05 23:01 52° 26' 47" N  1° 49' 52" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338572
3380371992-08-01 15:12 53° 11' 0" N  0° 28' 41" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338037
3380501992-08-01 19:27 52° 54' 53" N  0° 15' 4" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338050
3381291992-08-02 07:33 52° 58' 29" N  0° 18' 26" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338129
3382581992-08-02 13:48 53° 4' 54" N  0° 24' 55" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338258
3384791992-08-05 05:28 51° 34' 59" N  2° 33' 35" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338479
3385111992-08-05 12:45 51° 30' 49" N  1° 7' 28" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338511
3380251992-08-01 14:30 53° 16' 5" N  0° 27' 41" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338025
3382831992-08-02 16:06 53° 13' 57" N  0° 40' 12" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338283
3384311992-08-04 10:43 52° 20' 53" N  4° 15' 55" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338431
3384921992-08-05 11:04 51° 31' 0" N  1° 20' 37" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338492
3379011992-07-31 12:32 53° 34' 5" N  0° 24' 1" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337901
3379621992-07-31 16:49 53° 31' 50" N  0° 13' 30" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337962
3379741992-07-31 22:36 53° 39' 47" N  0° 13' 14" W  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337974
3380131992-08-01 13:39 53° 21' 8" N  0° 24' 1" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338013
3380621992-08-01 19:56 52° 56' 33" N  0° 15' 21" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338062
3381541992-08-02 09:02 52° 57' 50" N  0° 25' 14" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338154
3382341992-08-02 12:50 53° 1' 57" N  0° 30' 27" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338234
3383751992-08-03 18:35 53° 0' 9" N  3° 8' 8" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338375
3384801992-08-05 08:55 51° 31' 1" N  1° 53' 59" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338480
3385471992-08-05 17:28 51° 47' 4" N  1° 35' 8" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338547
3378821992-07-29 22:34 53° 29' 50" N  3° 9' 38" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337882
3378941992-07-30 12:34 54° 8' 7" N  2° 28' 7" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337894
3379981992-08-01 12:01 53° 26' 42" N  0° 21' 38" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 337998
3382221992-08-02 12:18 53° 2' 21" N  0° 25' 43" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338222
3382461992-08-02 13:14 53° 3' 10" N  0° 27' 33" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338246
3382711992-08-02 15:21 53° 8' 28" N  0° 34' 52" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338271
3383511992-08-03 13:04 53° 0' 10" N  4° 29' 13" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338351
3384431992-08-04 23:05 52° 4' 34" N  3° 54' 45" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338443
3384551992-08-05 01:08 51° 49' 16" N  3° 32' 10" E  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 338455