FS Meteor M45_4
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) |
| Cruise identifier | M45_4 |
| Cruise period | 1999-08-13 — 1999-08-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | St. John's, Canada |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Deployment and Recovery of Inverted Echo Sounders in the Denmark Strait as part of the VEINS program. |
| Project | VEINS - Variability of Exchanges in Northern Seas |
| Coordinating body | MAST III |
| Cruise report |  (0.24 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean Greenland Sea |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | 63° 28' 34" N 36° 17' 18" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echosounders. Depth: 2002m |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | 63° 21' 46" N 36° 3' 43" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echosounders. Depth: 2206m |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | 63° 28' 33" N 36° 17' 34" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echosounders. Depth: 2001m |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | 63° 28' 33" N 36° 17' 34" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echosounders. Depth: 2001m |
| Single-beam echosounding | 63° 28' 34" N 36° 17' 18" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echosounders. Depth: 2002m |
| Single-beam echosounding | 63° 21' 46" N 36° 3' 43" W — To measure the thickness of the DSOW using echosounders. Depth: 2206m |
