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RV F.G. Walton Smith WS17305

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Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)RV F.G. Walton Smith (33WA)
Cruise identifierWS17305
Cruise period2017-10-31 — 2017-11-10
StatusCompleted
Port of departureMiami, United States
Port of returnMiami, United States
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesThis 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 scientistEleanor Frajka-Williams (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
ProjectMechanisms Responsible for Mesoscale Eddy Energy Dissipation (MeRMEED)
Cruise reportRV F.G. Walton Smith WS17305 cruise report waltonsmith_ws17305.pdf (4.93 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralNorth West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)
SpecificBahamas
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Series/Profiles 
1  Acoustic doppler current profiler
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BODC idDate/TimeLocationDoc.
20280232017-10-31 23:26:09  — 2017-11-09 16:53:34 25° 45' 21" N  80° 6' 25" W — 26° 17' 18" N  76° 57' 1" W  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 2028023