RRS Discovery D112
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D112 |
| Cruise period | 1980-08-03 — 1980-08-18 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | St. John's, Canada |
| Port of return | Middlesbrough, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The principal objective was to lay a chain of sea-bed pressure recorders at chosen positions from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to a site west of the Bay of Biscay including a large triangle spanning the Azores area, and to recover them after about four months, in order to:
(a) link the IOS circuit of tidal stations in the NE Atlantic to the Canadian tidal shelf network off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, (b) obtain more material for the study of sub-tidal oscillations, their coherence across the ocean and their spatial gradients about the mid-Atlantic Ridge, (c) establish the first IOS 1-year oceanic pressure record at the west Biscay station, for high tidal resolution and low frequency comparison with standard tide gauges at Newlyn, Brest and Cascais. Incidental recording on passage was made of surface salinity and temperature, with special interest in the Labrador current/Gulf Steam boundary region, bathymetry and mangnetic field. About 106 15-gallon plastic containers were carried for filling with sea water on behalf of the Standard Seawater Service. |
| Chief scientist | David E Cartwright (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Bidston Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.44 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | North Atlantic |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 8 Description: Mooring out for 120 days: near sea floor,8 instr.,120 days rec.approx.on each. T only |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | Quantity: number of deployments = 9 Description: Mooring out for 120 days: 9 tide gauges,120 days rec.app.on each.t.g.laid for cr.115 |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements |
