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RV Melville 318MHYDROS4
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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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