FS Meteor M87/1
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) |
| Cruise identifier | M87/1 |
| Cruise period | 2012-03-19 — 2012-05-02 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Port of return | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The cruise will be conducted within the European Union research project Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis, and Integration (BASIN). The cruise will focus on physical controls on the dynamics of phytoplankton biomass, carbon flux and zooplankton interactions in the North Atlantic during the transition from regimes of winter convection to spring stratification. |
| Chief scientist | Jan Backhaus (University of Hamburg Oceanography Institute) |
| NPRC |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
