Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | Akademik Ioffe (RUAI) |
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Cruise identifier | 45 |
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Cruise period | 2014-11-08 — 2015-03-25 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Ushuaia, Argentina |
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Port of return | Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | The main goal of the cruise is to provide high-frequency long-term monitoring of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the upper 1000 m layer in Drake Passage and in the Scotia Sea to understand its variable structure and influence of the large-scale bottom topography as well as water transport variations attributed to the atmospheric wind field. |
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Chief scientist | Sergey V Gladyshev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology) |
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Project | Climate Variability and Predictability |
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NPRC | (0.11 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) Southern Ocean |
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Specific | Drake Passage, Scotia Sea |