RV Nathaniel B. Palmer 3206145_3
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Nathaniel B. Palmer (3206) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | 3206145_3 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1996-05-03 — 1996-07-04 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||
| Port of return | Hobart, Australia | ||||||||
| Objectives | Indian Ocean WOCE line SO41, a meridional circumnavigation of Antarctica at the nominal latitude of 60 S (longitudes 20 E to 120 E). 108 full-depth CTD stations were occupied and a dedicated CFC archive-sample. Nine self-reporting current meters and 17 ALACE floats were deployed. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | James H Swift (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Thomas Whitworth III (Texas A+M Department of Oceanography) | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (2.22 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | Indian Ocean | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.45 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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