G.O. Sars 2003111
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | G.O. Sars (58G3) |
| Cruise identifier | 2003111 |
| Cruise period | 2003-09-19 — 2003-10-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Unknown, Norway |
| Port of return | Unknown, Norway |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | This cruise is related to the EU-project TRACTOR, the national PROCLIM project and is also part of a joint Norwegian and UK cooperation initiated between the two countries' ministers of environment. The purpose is to map the distribution of SF6 and is a follow up cruise after the tracer release experiment. The experiment started in 1996 as a joint effort between researchers from Iceland, UK, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Inorganic carbon variables will be measured, together with the general physics (CTD and LADCP). |
| Chief scientist | Truls Johannessen (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen) |
| NPRC |  (0.23 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Greenland Sea Norwegian Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Greenland Sea (75deg N as close to the sea ice as possible, approximately 13 deg W). North of Iceland, Denmark Strait, South of Iceland, Faeroe and Shetland Ridge/Channel. |
