RRS Charles Darwin CD97
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | CD97 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1995-10-12 — 1995-11-06 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Ponta Delgada, Portugal | ||||||||
| Port of return | Southampton, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||
| Objectives | 1) To recover OMEX current meter moorings.
2) To measure the geostrophic transport of the Azores current. 3) To deploy Argos Buoys and ALACE floats. 4) To relate biological and physical parameters to the measured physical structures in the Canary / Azores region. 5) To deploy moored current meters at the Great Meteor Tablemount and in the Azores Current. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Robin D Pingree (Marine Biological Association of the UK) | ||||||||
| Project | OMEX/MAST | ||||||||
| Coordinating body | EC | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (6.40 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) | ||||||||
| Specific | NE Atlantic, 5-15 W 45-50 N | ||||||||
| Track charts | (4.36 MB) | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Biology and fisheries | |||||||||
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of samples = 60 Description: Fluorometric chlorophyll-a | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 Pumped water sample | Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies
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| Discrete samples | |||||||||
| 1 Drifting Buoy | |||||||||
| 20 Expendable Bathythermograph | Temperature of the water column | ||||||||
| 60 Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply | Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies |
