RV F.G. Walton Smith WS18066
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV F.G. Walton Smith (33WA) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | WS18066 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 2018-03-08 — 2018-03-16 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Miami, United States | ||||||||
| Port of return | Miami, United States | ||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||
| Objectives | This is the third cruise of the MerMEED project. The purpose of this cruise was to
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 Seagliders. Of these, the standard Seagliders were intended to remain in the area for 4 months. During the 9 day cruise, 46 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 third cruise 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). | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Dafydd G Evans (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) | ||||||||
| Project | MerMEED | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (18.55 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) | ||||||||
| Specific | Abaco Islands | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.47 MB) | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 Acoustic doppler current profiler | Horizontal platform movement Metadata parameters Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Acoustic backscatter in the water column Reference numbers Vertical spatial coordinates Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Date and time Horizontal platform movement Metadata parameters Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Acoustic backscatter in the water column Reference numbers Vertical spatial coordinates Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Date and time
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