- Resources
- Inventories
- Cruise inventory
- Report
- 3868
RV Calanus Clyde 9
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Calanus (745R) |
Cruise identifier | Clyde 9 |
Cruise period | 1993-10-25 — 1993-10-27 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Clyde 9 Objective was to make observations of the seasonal cycle of water column structure and productivity in the Clyde Sea and North Channel of the Irish Sea with the aim of determining the dynamics and role of the physical forcing on the cycles of phytoplankton and nutrients. |
Chief scientist | Rik Midgley (University of Wales, Bangor School of Ocean Sciences) |
Project | PROFILE EU MAST |
Coordinating body | POL, Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead, UK |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
Specific | NW European Shelf, Clyde Sea, North Channel of Irish Sea |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 26 |
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 26 Description: Continuous recording |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: 26 Description: Transmissometer attached to CTD |
Current meters | Quantity: 2 Description: 8 RCMS |
Chemical oceanography | |
Phosphate | Quantity: number of samples = 26 Description: From bottle samples at 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150 m |
Nitrate | Quantity: number of samples = 26 Description: From bottle samples at 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150 m |
Nitrite | Quantity: 26 |
Ammonia | Quantity: 26 |
Silicate | Quantity: number of samples = 26 Description: From bottle samples at 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150 m |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Physical oceanography | |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | 55° 32' 59" N 4° 55' 59" W — 2 transmissometers |
Current meters | 55° 43' 59" N 5° 10' 59" W — 1 surface T/S logger and 4 RCMs |
Current meters | 55° 32' 59" N 4° 55' 59" W — 1 surface T/S logger and 4 RCMs |