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HDMS Vaedderen Galathea3 1

Cruise plan

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)HDMS Vaedderen (26VD)
Cruise identifierGalathea3 1
Cruise period2006-08-11 — 2006-08-18
StatusCompleted
Port of departureKøbenhavns Havn, Denmark
Port of returnTórshavn, Faroe Islands
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesTo collect a multidisciplinary dataset describing the upper ocean processes controlling ocean-atmosphere carbon exchange on a global scale.
Objectives:
1. Quantify the marine carbon cycle in the upper ocean together with the air-sea exchange of CO2, trace gasses and particle deposition from Greenland to Antarctica.
2. Compare the roles and contributions of different ocean regions in/to physical, chemical and biological processes in the global carbon and nutrient cycles.
3. Take advantage of new technology and remote sensing to quantify the role of ocean mesoscale activity - "ocean weather" - on the spatial variability of air-sea gas exchange of CO2 on the global scale.

Over the entire cruise track, continuous measurements of salinity, temperature and chlorophyll a and fast repetition rate fluorescence (for determination of photosynthetic capacity) will be carried out on surface water. Atmospheric CO2 fluxes, particle concentrations and concentration of nitrogen containing gases will also be measured continuously along the route. In addition, point measurements of nutrients, and plankton composition will be made and analyzed in the laboratories. On deck, air- and optical measurements will be carried. These measurements will not require stopping the ship. At selected intervals, CTD-casts with concurrent collection of water chemistry and plankton sampling will be taken.
Chief scientistKatherine Richardson (University of Aarhus Bioscience Institute)
NPRCHDMS Vaedderen Galathea3 1 NPRC vaedderen_1.pdf (0.13 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralNorth East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)