RV Plymouth Quest PQ160229
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Plymouth Quest (74PQ) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | PQ160229 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 2016-02-29 — 2016-02-29 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Plymouth, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Port of return | Plymouth, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Purpose | Monitoring | ||||||||
| Objectives | Sampling and measurements at L4 time series station. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Tim Smyth (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | English Channel | ||||||||
| Specific | Western English Channel | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 CTD/STD cast | Transmittance and attenuance of the water column Reference numbers Temperature of the water column Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column Salinity of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column Density of the water column Raw fluorometer output Transmittance and attenuance of the water column Reference numbers Temperature of the water column Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column Salinity of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column Density of the water column Raw fluorometer output
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| Discrete samples | |||||||||
| 1 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies Bacteria generic abundance in water bodies Phytoplankton generic abundance in water bodies Plankton abundance per unit volume of the water column | ||||||||
| 1 WP-2 zooplankton net |
