FS Meteor M15_3
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | M15_3 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1991-02-10 — 1991-03-23 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||
| Port of return | Vitória, Brazil | ||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||
| Objectives | The program started with current measurements in the Brazil Current at 1 S . The shipborne acoustic Doppler current profiler, ADCP, and expendable current profilers, XCPs, were used. This work was followed by the hydrographic WHP stations on the zonal section A9 at 19 S between South America and Africa. In addition to the WHP observations there were CO2 measurements and an air chemistry program. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Gerold Siedler (Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel) | ||||||||
| Project | WOCE | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | South Atlantic Ocean | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 95 | ||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 112 | ||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: 14 Description: XCP (free-fall current profiler) | ||||||||
| Chemical oceanography | |||||||||
| Oxygen | Quantity: 112 | ||||||||
| Carbon dioxide | Quantity: 51 | ||||||||
| Phosphate | Quantity: 181 | ||||||||
| Nitrate | Quantity: 192 | ||||||||
| Nitrite | Quantity: 178 | ||||||||
| Silicate | Quantity: 193 | ||||||||
| Geology and geophysics | |||||||||
| In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 Description: Argos-drifters with drognes at 100m | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 Single-beam echosounder | Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Bathymetry and Elevation
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