Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Oceanus (32OC) |
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Cruise identifier | OC411 |
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Cruise period | 2005-04-26 — 2005-05-04 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Woods Hole, United States |
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Port of return | Woods Hole, United States |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | The measurements were made as a contribution to the U.S. Clivar / U.K. RAPID study of interannual variability of the North Atlantic Ocean's meridional overturning circulation. Along Station W, a measurement line running from the shelf break south of Woods Hole towards Bermuda below a Jason altimeter satellite track the objectives were:
1. To recover and redeploy 3 moorings of a 6 element mooring array
2. To deploy a mooring in the axis of the Gulf Stream
3. To occupy a hydrographic section (22 full depth CTD stations). |
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Chief scientist | John M Toole (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Physical Oceanography) |
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Project | RAPID |
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Cruise report | (1.13 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
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Specific | Station W in the North Atlantic, running from shelf break south of Woods Hole towards Bermuda |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Water bottle stations | Description: Water samples for salinity, oxygen, CFC (F11, F12, F113) |
CTD stations | Quantity: number of profiles = 22 Description: CTD (with dissolved oxygen sensor)/LADCP |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Current meters | 37° 31' 9" N 68° 16' 59" W — current meter mooring |
Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 38° 50' 41" N 69° 10' 57" W — McLane Moored Profiler |
Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 38° 8' 35" N 68° 37' 36" W — McLane Moored Profiler |
Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 39° 36' 15" N 69° 42' 59" W — McLane Moored Profiler |
Data held at BODC | |
Discrete samples | |
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22 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column Density of the water column Chlorofluorocarbon concentrations in the water column
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4 Instrument mooring | |