RV Oceanus OC411
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Oceanus (32OC) |
| Cruise identifier | OC411 |
| Cruise period | 2005-04-26 — 2005-05-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Woods Hole, United States |
| Port of return | Woods Hole, United States |
| Purpose | Research |
| 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). |
| Chief scientist | John M Toole (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Physical Oceanography) |
| Project | RAPID |
| Cruise report |  (1.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Station W in the North Atlantic, running from shelf break south of Woods Hole towards Bermuda |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 4 Instrument mooring |
