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RRS James Clark Ross JR20040722 (JR105)
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS James Clark Ross (74JC) |
Cruise identifier | JR20040722 (JR105) |
Cruise period | 2004-07-22 — 2004-08-11 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Qaqortoq, Greenland |
Port of return | Reykjavík, Iceland |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | This was the fourth and final cruise of the US NSF-sponsored project "Is Labrador Sea Water formed in the Irminger Basin?"
Objectives 1. Recover two moored profilers in the southern Irminger Sea 2. Deploy a long-term subsurface mooring for a related project 3. Deploy a meteorological buoy alongside this mooring 4. Carry out a hydrographic/velocity/tracer survey of the East Greenland coastal current on the inner shelf from Cape Farewell to Denmark Strait All objectives were successfully met. |
Chief scientist | Robert S Pickart (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Physical Oceanography) |
Cruise report | (0.25 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Atlantic Ocean |
Specific | Kangerdlugssuaq basin. Denmark Strait. |