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RRS Discovery D154_1
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
Cruise identifier | D154_1 |
Cruise period | 1984-12-08 — 1984-12-30 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Gibraltar, Gibraltar |
Port of return | Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
Purpose | Passage |
Objectives | Passage leg with some geophysical work in the vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands and routine XBT drops for IOS. |
Chief scientist | Peter F Barker (University of Birmingham Department of Geological Sciences) |
Cruise report | (3.42 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | South Atlantic Ocean |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 33 Description: XBT |
Geology and geophysics | |
Gravity measurements | |
Magnetic measurements |