Akademik Ioffe 49
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Akademik Ioffe (RUAI) |
| Cruise identifier | 49 |
| Cruise period | 2015-06-12 — 2015-07-05 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Gdansk, Poland |
| Port of return | Halifax, Canada |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | RV Akademik Ioffe Cruise 49 was a contribution to the Russian CLIVAR and WORLD OCEAN Research Programmes. CTD section was designed to enable the ocean circulation in the Subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic to be mapped and in particular the course of the North Atlantic, Irminger and East Greenland Currents within the region to be determined. The main goal is to continue annual monitoring of the North Atlantic large-scale circulation and climate changes in the North Atlantic.
12 stations (3403-3414) were made at the Greenland shelf and continental slope to determine the coastal East Greenland Current. |
| Chief scientist | Sergey V Gladyshev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology) |
| Project | Climate Variability and Predictability |
| Cruise report |  (3.50 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
