RV Clione CLI4/85

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Ship name (ship code)

RV Clione (74CN)

Cruise identifier

CLI4/85

Cruise period

1985-03-19 — 1985-04-02

Status

Completed

Port of departure

Lowestoft, United Kingdom

Port of return

Lowestoft, United Kingdom

Objectives

1. To recover a current meter station from the North Channel and lay an array of 12 current meter stations.
2. To lay and recover a current meter test rig to compare the performance of modified meters. No trace of the station to be recovered was found.
3. To make a CTD survey of the North Channel.
4. To take water samples for analysis of cadmium lead and copper on board.
5. To lay the near bed velocity meter off Southwold on the outward passage and recover on return.
6. To take water samples for caesium analysis on passage to the Irish Sea.

Chief scientist

J Alan Durance (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)

Cruise report

(0.13 MB)

Ocean/sea areas

General

Bristol Channel
North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)

Specific

North Channel/ Southwold

Track charts

Measurements

Physical oceanography

CTD stations

Quantity: number of stations = 15
Description: 2 with T only

Geochemical tracers (eg freons)

Quantity: number of samples = 45
Description: caesium samples (Cs)

Current meters

Description: 23 current meters deployed

Surface drifters/drifting buoys

Quantity: number of deployments = 548
Description: bottom

Chemical oceanography

Oxygen