Akademik Ioffe 39
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Akademik Ioffe (RUAI) |
| Cruise identifier | 39 |
| Cruise period | 2012-09-10 — 2012-09-30 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Kangerluarsoruseq, Greenland |
| Port of return | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | RV Akademik Ioffe Cruise 39 was a contribution to the RUSSIA CLIVAR Community Research Programme. The sections over North Atlantic sills between Greenland - Iceland - Faroe Islands and Shetlands were designed to estimate variability of the meridional fluxes and water mass exchange between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. The Denmark Strait section was repeated three times during six days to study short-term variability of the water mass properties circulation and meridional transport. |
| Chief scientist | Sergey V Gladyshev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology) |
| Cruise report |  (2.47 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | Faroe Islands. Denmark Strait. |
| Track charts | (0.67 MB) |
