Akademik Mstislav Keldysh AMK71
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (RUBP) |
| Cruise identifier | AMK71 |
| Cruise period | 2018-06-23 — 2018-08-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Kaliningrad, Russian Federation |
| Port of return | Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | North Atlantic Repeat Hydrography of WOCE section along 59.5 N and sill sections between Greenland - Iceland - Faroe Islands and Shetlands. Norwegian and Barents Sea Research.
Specific goals of the cruise are to provide the description of the Subpolar Gyre thermohaline and kinematic structure; to monitor the spatiotemporal changes of transatlantic meridional volume and heat transport, to investigate and evaluate the exchange in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. Geological researches aim to study Holocene - Upper Pleistocene climate and to estimate atmosphere - ocean - lithosphere matter exchange. |
| Chief scientist | Sergey V Gladyshev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology) |
| Project | Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) |
| Cruise report |  (4.96 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.46 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean Irminger Sea |
| Specific | Three hydrographic sections between Shetland Islands and Greenland from 60.417° N, 01.917°W to 67.398° N 33.042° W. Hydrographic section from 59.5° N 04.6° W to 59.95° N, 43.00° W and survey in the Irminger Sea. |
