Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
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Cruise identifier | CLI5/75 |
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Cruise period | 1975-04-02 — 1975-04-11 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To establish an array of current meter stations in the vicinity of JONSIS 2 to measure the spatial variability of the currents and to provide surface markers
for the RAE Doppler navigation trials.
2. To make DRCM measurements adjacent to some of the current meter stations.
3. To make a temperature and salinity survey of an area between Flamborough Head and the River Tyne.
4. To service the JONSIS stations 1 and 2.
5. To recover the array of current meter stations established at the beginning of the cruise; |
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Chief scientist | J Alan Durance (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.11 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
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Track charts | |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 12 |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 7 |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 400 Description: bottom |