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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 |