RV Pelagia PE473
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Pelagia (64PE) |
| Cruise identifier | PE473 |
| Cruise period | 2020-06-21 — 2020-07-17 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Port of return | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
Hydrographic survey of the Overturning of the Subpolar North Atlantic Project (OSNAP) line and servicing of OSNAP moorings along this line. OSNAP monitors the northward volume, heat and freshwater transport across the North Atlantic. Also, surface drifters will be deployed on the East Greenland shelf to investigate the exchange of fresh (melt) water with the open ocean and the effects on the ocean circulation. |
| Chief scientist | Marieke Femke de Jong (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) |
| NPRC |  (0.32 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Northern Atlantic Ocean and the east Greenland shelf south of Iceland. East Greenland shelf between Denmark Strait at 67°N and 34°W to Cape Farewell at 60°N and 43°W. Atlantic basin from Cape Farwell at 60°N and 43°W to the Scottish shelf at 57°N and 8°W. |