Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | Polar Duke (33PD) |
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Cruise identifier | WSEX91 |
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Cruise period | 1991-02-10 — 1991-03-15 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Marsh Base, Antarctica |
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Port of return | Marsh Base, Antarctica |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | Part of an ongoing programme to look at Weddell Sea bottom water formation and production rates. One of the objectives of the cruise was to collect gravity cores in order to give BAS scientists an insight on the local sediments prior to planning their own comprehensive coring programme. |
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Chief scientist | Theodore D Foster (University of California Santa Cruz Institute of Marine Sciences) |
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Project | Weddell Sea Oceanographic Cruise |
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Coordinating body | British Antarctic Survey (BAS) |
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Cruise report | (0.07 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | South Atlantic Ocean |
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Specific | Weddell Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: A number of CTD casts were made throughout the cruise.
No. of casts not noted. |
Current meters | Description: A number of CTD casts were made throughout the cruise.
No. of casts not noted. |
Current meters | Quantity: number of dives = 7 Description: A number of current meters were laid during the cruise. |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Oxygen | Description: A number of CTD casts were made throughout the cruise.
No. of casts not noted. |
Contamination | |
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Suspended matter | Description: A number of CTD casts were made throughout the cruise.
No. of casts not noted. |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 6 Description: A number of gravity cores were used throughout the cruise. |