RV Cirolana CIR1/99
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR1/99 |
| Cruise period | 1999-02-04 — 1999-02-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To provide baseline winter nutrient data for the UK coast.
2. To deploy ARGOS drifters in the Celtic Deep. |
| Chief scientist | David Brian Sivyer (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.21 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Celtic Sea |
| Specific | UK coast; Celtic Deep |
| Track charts | (0.05 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: track kilometres = 4778.16 Description: Continuous recording of salinity, temperature and Aquatraka fluorimeter |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 9 Description: At anchor in Wash, Thames, Humber, Outer Gabbard, Tyne, Plymouth, Bristol Channel, Liverpool Bay, Fleetwood |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: Sampled via the continuous seawater supply |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: Sampled via the continuous seawater supply |
| Nitrite | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| Nitrite | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: Sampled via the continuous seawater supply |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: Sampled via the continuous seawater supply |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: Sampled via the continuous seawater supply |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: Sampled via the continuous seawater supply |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 47 Description: FSI CTD, LICOR, LSS transmissometer, HAARDT fluorimeter |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 200 Description: Sampled via the continuous seawater supply |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | 51° 51' 0" N 6° 10' 59" W — ARGOS drifting buoy deployed |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | 51° 34' 59" N 5° 45' 0" W — ARGOS drifting buoy deployed |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | 51° 24' 59" N 6° 15' 0" W — ARGOS drifting buoy deployed |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | 50° 39' 59" N 6° 0' 0" W — ARGOS drifting buoy deployed |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | 50° 39' 59" N 7° 45' 0" W — ARGOS drifting buoy deployed |
