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FS Meteor M15_2
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Cruise Info. | |||||||||
Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) | ||||||||
Cruise identifier | M15_2 | ||||||||
Cruise period | 1991-01-18 — 1991-02-07 | ||||||||
Status | Completed | ||||||||
Port of departure | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||
Port of return | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||
Purpose | Research | ||||||||
Objectives | The work focused on the area of the Hunter Channel. The emphasis was laid on HYDROSWEEP echosounding to obtain an improved bottom topography, geological coring and hydrographic observations. The geological studies are aimed at reconstructing the history of bottom water exchange between the Argentine and Brazil Basins during the last one million years. The hydrographic data will be used to investigate the present bottom water flow. Biological sampling was also performed. | ||||||||
Chief scientist | Walter Zenk (Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel) | ||||||||
Project | WOCE | ||||||||
Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
General | South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) | ||||||||
Measurements | |||||||||
Physical oceanography | |||||||||
Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 11 Description: Brazil current flow | ||||||||
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 115 Description: CTD calibration | ||||||||
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 62 Description: water mass transport analysis | ||||||||
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: 10 instruments in the Brazil current on 6 Feb. | ||||||||
Chemical oceanography | |||||||||
Oxygen | Quantity: 115 Description: CTD calibration | ||||||||
Biology and fisheries | |||||||||
Primary productivity | Quantity: 20 Description: productivity studies | ||||||||
Geology and geophysics | |||||||||
Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: 16 Description: history of bottom water flow | ||||||||
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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