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FS Meteor M39_5
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) |
Cruise identifier | M39_5 |
Cruise period | 1997-08-13 — 1997-09-10 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Reykjavík, Iceland |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Deployment of Inverted Echo Sounds in the Denmark Strait as part of the VEINS (variability of exchange in northern seas) program. |
Chief scientist | Geoff Hargreaves (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) |
Project | VEINS - Variability of Exchange in Northern Seas. |
Coordinating body | MAST III |
Cruise report | (0.22 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Atlantic Ocean Greenland Sea |
Moorings, landers, buoys | |
Physical oceanography | |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | 63° 22' 2" N 36° 4' 22" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echsounders. Depth: 2180m Sea temp.: 10.4˚C Air temp.: 9.5˚C |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | 63° 21' 57" N 36° 3' 52" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echsounders. Depth: 2209m |
Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | 63° 28' 43" N 36° 17' 52" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echsounders. Depth: 1991m |