Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Sarsia (74SR) |
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Cruise identifier | 11/79 |
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Cruise period | 1979-10-01 — 1979-10-12 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To make measurements of the turbulent components of sand concentration together with simultaneous turbulent velocity fluctuations, to yield the vertical sediment flux.
2. To make measurements of the tidal variation in ripple shape to correlate with changes in the roughness length obtained from simultaneous velocity profile measurements. |
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Chief scientist | Richard L Soulsby (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
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Cruise report | (0.17 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 2 |
Current meters | Description: 9 days; 3 days electromagnetic current meters |
Contamination | |
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Suspended matter | Quantity: 182 |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 1 Description: 183 physical analysis of sediments |
Bottom photography | Quantity: 13 |