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RV F.G. Walton Smith WS17305
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |||||||||
Ship name (ship code) | RV F.G. Walton Smith (33WA) | ||||||||
Cruise identifier | WS17305 | ||||||||
Cruise period | 2017-10-31 — 2017-11-10 | ||||||||
Status | Completed | ||||||||
Port of departure | Miami, United States | ||||||||
Port of return | Miami, United States | ||||||||
Purpose | Research | ||||||||
Objectives | This is the second cruise of the MerMEED project.
Objectives: 1. 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. 2. deploy standard and microstructure Seagliders. The standard Seagliders were intended to remain in the area for 4 months. During the 10 day cruise, 112 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 second 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 a second glider deployment in the spring of 2018. | ||||||||
Chief scientist | Eleanor Frajka-Williams (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) | ||||||||
Project | Mechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Energy Dissipation (MeRMEED) | ||||||||
Cruise report | (4.93 MB) | ||||||||
Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) | ||||||||
Specific | Bahamas | ||||||||
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 Acoustic backscatter in the water column Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Metadata parameters Reference numbers Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Vertical spatial coordinates Horizontal platform movement Acoustic backscatter in the water column Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Metadata parameters
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