Cotes De La Manche TRAMAT
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Cotes De La Manche (35C4) |
| Cruise identifier | TRAMAT |
| Cruise period | 2016-03-30 — 2016-04-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Cherbourg, France |
| Port of return | Cherbourg, France |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The aim of the TRAMAT cruise is to better understand the behavior of the fine sediment particles (< 63 μm) within a seabed composed of coarse and fine sediment particles. The acquired in situ data will allow improving the particle transport law computed in the hydro-sedimentary module of the MARS model developed at the IFREMER (France). MARS model can be used to predict dispersion, transport and transfer of pollutant compounds within a marine ecosystem. In situ seabed particle transport processes will be studied by monitoring current and particle dynamics closed to the water-sediment interface at 4 different locations and during a 24-hour cycle at each location. The monitoring will be done by deploying in situ instruments (mainly ADCP and DYSPI) and sampling sediment and water. |
| Chief scientist | Philippe Laguionie (Cherbourg-Octeville Radioecology Laboratory) |
| NPRC |  (1.43 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
