RV Melville 318MWESTW_4
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Melville (318M) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | 318MWESTW_4 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1994-03-27 — 1994-05-15 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Iquique, Chile | ||||||||
| Port of return | Papeete, French Polynesia | ||||||||
| Objectives | WOCE designation P21E and P21. This cruise occupied a series of CTD/O2 (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth-Oxygen) stations approximately along 17° S from the continental shelf of Peru to the continental shelf of Australia (intermediate port stop in Tahiti). High quality water-property data was collected in order to help define the pattern of circulation in the South Pacific. Measurements of temperature, depth, salinity, and dissolved oxygen concentration were made continuously with depth, and the concentrations of dissolved silica, phosphate, nitrate, and nitrite were measured. Measurements of freon, tritium concentrations and CO2 were made at selected levels. Continuous echo-sounding was maintained along the cruise track as well as ADCP current measurements. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Michael S McCartney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Physical Oceanography) | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (0.22 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | South Pacific Ocean | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) | ||||||||
| 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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