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RV Aranda AR1/90
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |||||||||||||||||
Ship name (ship code) | RV Aranda (34A3) | ||||||||||||||||
Cruise identifier | AR1/90 | ||||||||||||||||
Cruise period | 1990-07-09 — 1990-07-18 | ||||||||||||||||
Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||
Port of departure | Reykjavík, Iceland | ||||||||||||||||
Port of return | Reykjavík, Iceland | ||||||||||||||||
Purpose | Research | ||||||||||||||||
Objectives | 1) To recover 5 moorings from the Greenland continental slope south of Dohrn Bank
2) To deploy 7 current meter moorings on a section between 63 degrees 39.9 minutes North 32 degrees 58.2 minutes West and 64 degrees 56.9 minutes North 34 degrees 22.2 minutes West, previously surveyed during the TTO 3) To carry out CTD casts and to collect water samples throughout the water column for determination of Freon-11, Freon-12, Freon-113 and silicate concentrations at stations south of, north of and within the Denmark Strait 4) Samples of marine air were collected and analysed for Freons 5) Silicate concentrations were determined at all CTD stations | ||||||||||||||||
Chief scientist | Edward M Gmitrowicz (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) | ||||||||||||||||
Cruise report | (1.72 MB) | ||||||||||||||||
Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||||||||||
General | North Atlantic Ocean Greenland Sea | ||||||||||||||||
Specific | The Denmark Strait | ||||||||||||||||
Track charts | (0.02 MB) | ||||||||||||||||
Measurements | |||||||||||||||||
Physical oceanography | |||||||||||||||||
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 5 Description: CTD profiles (on 3 of the stations) plus water samples for freons from rosette or hydro wire | ||||||||||||||||
Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||||||||||
Series/Profiles | |||||||||||||||||
3 CTD/STD cast | Vertical spatial coordinates Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column
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