RV Clione CLI10/71
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI10/71 |
| Cruise period | 1971-09-03 — 1971-09-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To moor and recover an array of 7 current meter stations in the Irish
Sea to complement those moored by RV JOHN MURRAY (JM10/71 leg 1) between 27-30 August; 2. To monitor the complete 14 station BISOP 71 network during the period 3-22 September. (See cruise programme for details of the BISOP 71 project); 3. To carry out GEK measurements and complete hydrographic sections along the lines of current meter stations in the North Channel, between Anglesey and Dublin, and between Milford-Haven and Waterford; 4. To make 25 hour DRCM measurements throughout the water column on the North Channel and Milford Haven to Waterford sections; 5. To release 50 sea bed drifters at each current meter station; 6. To test new chemical techniques for determining the soluble organic matter in sea water; 7. To service the ICES permanent current meter stations in the North Sea. |
| Chief scientist | Harold W Hill (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.37 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | 52-55N 06-03W |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 21 Description: 24 top & bottom only |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 19 Description: 9 electromagnetic magnetic. Current meter ; 2 days |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 7 Description: Moorings for a maximum of 22 days |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) | Quantity: number of samples = 36 Description: measured by spectrophotomet |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
