Cotes De La Manche DISPRO
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Cotes De La Manche (35C4) |
| Cruise identifier | DISPRO |
| Cruise period | 2003-08-08 — 2003-08-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Cherbourg, France |
| Port of return | Cherbourg, France |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The DISPRO cruises enabled the validation of near-field dispersion models by checking how representative simulated currents were in terms of direction and velocity and by adjusting the short and medium term (from an hour to a week) dispersion parameters. Tritium is used as a tracer for an occasion discharge with known characteristics, in an area with intense hydrodynamic conditions (in the Raz Blanchard race off the Cotentin peninsula, with currents reaching 5 m/s), taking a large number of measurements (several thousand) in the discharge plume. These surveys are carried out in close association with the validation of a specific hydrodynamic instantaneous current model for this zone developed by IFREMER/DEL/AO (mesh size 100 meters). |
| Chief scientist | Pascal Bailly-du-Bois (Radioecological Research Laboratory on the Atlantic Seaboard) |
| NPRC |  (0.03 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
| Specific | Northwest of Cotentin |
