RRS Challenger CH12/83
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Challenger (74CH) |
| Cruise identifier | CH12/83 |
| Cruise period | 1983-08-27 — 1983-09-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To deploy two test moorings off Tiree for IOS Bidston.
2. To deploy a pressure recorder in the Rockall Trough. 3. To attempt a recovery of moorings lost during the winter 1982/3 CONSLEX experiment. 4. To deploy a line of six subsurface current meter moorings in the Faroe-Shetland Channel. 5. To occupy CTD stations in the Faroe-Shetland Channel. 6. To obtain gravity cores in association with (4) and (5). |
| Chief scientist | W John Gould (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.28 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | West of Scotland/ Faroe-Shetland Chan. |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 31 Description: worked using the Bidston 9040 CTD sea unit, with data recorded at one second intervals. |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 6 Description: 21current meters deployed |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements | Description: synoptic hours |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 3 |
| Multi-beam echosounding | Description: continuous |
