RV Melville 318MHYDROS4
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Melville (318M) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | 318MHYDROS4 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1989-03-13 — 1989-04-19 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Objectives | Working HYDROS 4 and SAVE 6 | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Lynne D Talley (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) | ||||||||
| Project | WOCE | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) South East Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 102 | ||||||||
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 71 Description: also surface | ||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 71 | ||||||||
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 70 | ||||||||
| Subsurface temperature measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 70 | ||||||||
| Chemical oceanography | |||||||||
| Oxygen | Quantity: track kilometres = 4500 | ||||||||
| Carbon dioxide | Description: cont. | ||||||||
| Other dissolved gases | Quantity: track kilometres = 3950 Description: PC02 TCO2 | ||||||||
| Phosphate | Quantity: track kilometres = 4530 | ||||||||
| Nitrate | Quantity: track kilometres = 4530 | ||||||||
| Nitrite | Quantity: track kilometres = 4530 | ||||||||
| Silicate | Quantity: track kilometres = 4530 | ||||||||
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 394 Description: tritium,C14 | ||||||||
| Isotopes | Quantity: number of samples = 194 Description: radium 226/228 | ||||||||
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 299 Description: Argon Hc3 | ||||||||
| Other chemical oceanographic measurements | Description: cont. CH4,N2O | ||||||||
| Geology and geophysics | |||||||||
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 10556 | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 Single-beam echosounder | Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Bathymetry and Elevation
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