RV F.G. Walton Smith WS16336
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV F.G. Walton Smith (33WA) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | WS16336 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 2016-12-01 — 2016-12-07 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Miami, United States | ||||||||
| Port of return | Miami, United States | ||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||
| Objectives | The purpose of this cruise was to make microstructure temperature and shear measurements in order to measure dissipation at the intersection of an anticyclonic eddy and the steep topography to the east of Abaco, Bahamas. During the 7 day cruise, 70 profiles of microstructure data were collected using a tethered microstructure profiler, and a shipboard 75 kHz ADCP collected concurrent measurements of ocean currents. This cruise is the first of several planned cruises for the MerMEED project, and the data collected are intended to complement additional field operations, including moored instruments added to the RAPID array (thermistors and ADCPs on the WB1 mooring) and glider deployments planned for the 2017/18 year. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Eleanor Frajka-Williams (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (3.64 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) | ||||||||
| Specific | Bahamas (Abaco Islands) | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 Acoustic doppler current profiler | Reference numbers Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Vertical spatial coordinates Horizontal platform movement Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Acoustic backscatter in the water column Metadata parameters Reference numbers Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Vertical spatial coordinates Horizontal platform movement Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Acoustic backscatter in the water column Metadata parameters
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