Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
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Cruise identifier | CLI10B/75 |
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Cruise period | 1975-07-01 — 1975-07-08 |
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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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Objectives | 1. To establish an array of current meter stations in the vicinity of JONIS 2 in order to measure spatial variability of the currents and to provide surface markers for the R.A.E Doppler navigation trials.
2. To arry out test of a new electromagnetic current meter supplied by F.E.R controls.
3. To make D.R.C.M measurements adjacent to some of the current meter stations and to release Woodhead sea-bed drifters at each of them.
4. To service JONIS 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 | (0.20 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 17 |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 11 Description: 3 days includes 2 DRCM stations of 16 hrs and 25hrs |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 500 Description: bottom |
Meteorology | |
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Occasional standard measurements | Quantity: number of observations = 2 |