FS Meteor M22_5
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | M22_5 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1992-12-27 — 1993-01-30 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||
| Port of return | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||
| Objectives | Ref - 19930031
Leg 5 of a 5 leg cruise, WOCE area A10 Geological and and chemical observations in the subtropical South Atlantic as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), supplemted by biological and air chemistry observations and by a component of Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). Measurements of temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients and anthropogenic tracers were obtained along the zonal WHP secion A10 along 30° S (cruise track Brazil to South Africa). These investigations were supplemented by measurements of the carbonate system (contributing to JGOFS) and by biological sampling for the the determination of surface plankton, and studies of atmospheric aerosol particles. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Reiner Onken (Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel) | ||||||||
| Project | WOCE/JGOFS | ||||||||
| Coordinating body | WHP-Office, WHOI | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (7.86 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | South East Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.76 MB) | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: thermosalinograph | ||||||||
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 111 Description: XBT T5 (1800m), XBT T5sp (1100m) | ||||||||
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 113 Description: more casts at same st. | ||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 113 | ||||||||
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: 14 Description: secchi-disk 5 | ||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 69 Description: Dissolved Helium | ||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 111 Description: Freon-12 | ||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 112 Description: Tetrachloromethane (CCl4) | ||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 60 Description: Tritium/hydrogen atomic ratio | ||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 112 Description: Freon-11 | ||||||||
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | Quantity: number of profiles = 14 Description: overside RDI-ADCP | ||||||||
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | Description: shipborne RDI-ADCP | ||||||||
| GEK | Quantity: 14 Description: XCP-profilers | ||||||||
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: 6 Description: deployed | ||||||||
| Neutrally buoyant floats | Quantity: 1 Description: deployed | ||||||||
| Chemical oceanography | |||||||||
| Oxygen | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Carbon dioxide | Description: underway measurement | ||||||||
| Carbon dioxide | Quantity: 92 Description: Total inorganic carbon (TCO2) | ||||||||
| Phosphate | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Nitrate | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Nitrite | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Silicate | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Alkalinity | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| pH | Quantity: 113 | ||||||||
| Biology and fisheries | |||||||||
| Neuston | Quantity: number of hauls = 73 | ||||||||
| Meteorology | |||||||||
| Routine standard measurements | |||||||||
| Atmospheric chemistry | Description: aerosol size distributions, underway | ||||||||
| 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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