RRS James Clark Ross JR20040722 (JR105)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS James Clark Ross (74JC) |
| Cruise identifier | JR20040722 (JR105) |
| Cruise period | 2004-07-22 — 2004-08-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Qaqortoq, Greenland |
| Port of return | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | This was the fourth and final cruise of the US NSF-sponsored project "Is Labrador Sea Water formed in the Irminger Basin?"
Objectives 1. Recover two moored profilers in the southern Irminger Sea 2. Deploy a long-term subsurface mooring for a related project 3. Deploy a meteorological buoy alongside this mooring 4. Carry out a hydrographic/velocity/tracer survey of the East Greenland coastal current on the inner shelf from Cape Farewell to Denmark Strait All objectives were successfully met. |
| Chief scientist | Robert S Pickart (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Physical Oceanography) |
| Cruise report |  (0.25 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | Kangerdlugssuaq basin. Denmark Strait. |
