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RV Cirolana CIR3B/76
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
Cruise identifier | CIR3B/76 |
Cruise period | 1976-03-05 — 1976-03-11 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To service the existing current meter stations JONSIS 1 ( J l ), JONSIS 2 (J2), North East 1 and 2 (NE1 , NE2) and the Tyne Buoy.
2. To lay stations North East 3 and 4 (NE3, NE4) for the first time. 3. To lay 11 other current meter stations in the North Sea between 56 degrees and 58 degrees 26' as the joint MAFF-Danish contribution to the Project INOUT phase of the Joint North Sea Data Acquisition Project 1976 (JONSDAP 76). 4. To do serial casts along 58'26' for both salinity and caesium-137. |
Chief scientist | John W Ramster (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Project | JONSDAP 76 |
Cruise report | (0.29 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: T only |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 12 |
Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 15 |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 100 Description: bottom |
Chemical oceanography | |
Trace elements | Quantity: number of samples = 11 |