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RV Prince Madog PD07/04
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Prince Madog (74P2) |
| Cruise identifier | PD07/04 |
| Cruise period | 2004-03-02 — 2004-03-05 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To deploy instrumentation to measure Reynolds stress, other turbulance parameters, suspended particle matter and waves.
2. To conduct CTD measurements. 3. To recover a waverider buoy and a micro-lander at position 52° 32.0'N, 3° 21.8'W |
| Chief scientist | Alejandro J Souza (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) |
| Project | Dee Experiment |
| Coordinating body | POL |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Liverpool Bay and Dee Estuary |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of profiles = 79 Description: Sea-Bird Electronics 911 plus system |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 2 Description: Shipek grabs |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | 53° 22' 5" N 3° 19' 41" W — A sea bed frame fitted with a 1.2 MHz ADCP, 2 Sontek ADV's and a LISST-100. Deployed 02/03/02004. |
| Current meters | 53° 22' 5" N 3° 19' 41" W — A sea bed frame fitted with a 1.2 MHz ADCP, 2 Sontek ADV's and a LISST-100. Deployed 02/03/02004. |
| Current meters | 53° 23' 30" N 3° 14' 24" W — A POL Monitoring platform with a 1.2 MHz ADCP and a S4 current meter. Deployed 03/03/2004. |
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 53° 22' 5" N 3° 19' 41" W — A sea bed frame fitted with a 1.2 MHz ADCP, 2 Sontek ADV's and a LISST-100. Deployed 02/03/02004. |
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 53° 27' 0" N 3° 30' 11" W — A sea bed frame fitted with a 600KHz ADCP. Deployed 02/03/2004. |
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 53° 23' 30" N 3° 14' 24" W — A POL Monitoring platform with a 1.2 MHz ADCP and a S4 current meter. Deployed 03/03/2004. |
| Instrumented wave measurements | 53° 31' 59" N 3° 21' 47" W — Recovered a waverider on 02/03/2004. |
| Instrumented wave measurements | 53° 23' 30" N 3° 14' 24" W — Directional wave buoy. Deployed 03/03/2004 |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 53° 23' 30" N 3° 14' 30" W — STABLE. Deployed 03/03/2004. |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 80 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | Transmittance and attenuance of the water column Temperature of the water column Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column Salinity of the water column Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column Raw light meter output Density of the water column Raw suspended particulate material concentration sensor output Raw fluorometer output |
| 5 Instrument mooring | |
| 2 Shipek grab |
