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RV Clione CLI10B/75

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)RV Clione (74CN)
Cruise identifierCLI10B/75
Cruise period1975-07-01 — 1975-07-08
StatusCompleted
Port of departureLowestoft, United Kingdom
Port of returnLowestoft, United Kingdom
Objectives1. 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.
Chief scientistJ Alan Durance (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)
Cruise reportRV Clione CLI10B/75 cruise report clione10b_75.pdf (0.20 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralNorth Sea
Measurements 
Physical oceanography 
Water bottle stationsQuantity: number of stations = 17
Current metersQuantity: number of deployments = 11
Description: 3 days includes 2 DRCM stations of 16 hrs and 25hrs
Surface drifters/drifting buoysQuantity: number of deployments = 500
Description: bottom
Meteorology 
Occasional standard measurementsQuantity: number of observations = 2