FS Meteor M135
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) |
| Cruise identifier | M135 |
| Cruise period | 2017-03-01 — 2017-04-08 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Valparaiso, Chile |
| Port of return | Callao, Peru |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
- Map the conservative tracer along the Humboldt-Current System - Map the water mass properties with regards to temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, transient tracer and trace elements - Map the boundary current and eddy velocity and density fields - Determine the diapycnal mixing along the Peruvian shelf region. - Observe the pCO2 fluxes and sea surface temperature and salinity conditions - Map the particle abundance using an Underwater Vision Profiler - Perform biological sampling and incubation experiments - Execute an acoustic sediment survey - Recover sediment cores - Deploy two gliders for the subsequent M136 leg The cruise was very successful and all objectives were reached and the measurements were carried out as planned. |
| Chief scientist | Martin Visbeck (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel (West Shore Campus)) |
| Project | GEOTRACES -Trace elements and their isotopes in the water column |
| Cruise report |  (0.82 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South East Pacific Ocean (limit 140W) |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 109 All plastic clean surface pumped supply | |
| 26 |
