FS Meteor M28_2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Meteor (06M3) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | M28_2 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1994-05-15 — 1994-06-14 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Walvis Bay, Namibia | ||||||||
| Port of return | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||
| Objectives | This cruise studied the area between Walvis Bay and Buenos Aires as part of the WOCE Deep Basin Experiment (DBE). Primary focus was on water mass distribution and spreading within the Brazil Basin. The advection of Antarctic Intermediate Water on its west- and northward paths was investigated in combination with the southward transport of North Atlantic Deep Water and Antarctic Bottom Water. Special attention was given to the overflow phenomenon across the Rio Grande Rise at the Hunter Channel. Direct current observations by moored instruments and drifting buoys near the surface and the 1000 m depth were initiated. Seven previously deployed deep-sea current meter and thermistor chain moorings were recovered. The investigation also included radiative measurements at the sea surface, an environmental chemistry component and sediment sampling in combination with CTD. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Walter Zenk (Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel) | ||||||||
| Project | WOCE | ||||||||
| Coordinating body | WMO/ICSU/SCOR | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (9.64 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | South West Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.26 MB) | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 89 | ||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 44 | ||||||||
| Current meters | Quantity: 10 Description: ADCP/ACM | ||||||||
| GEK | Description: cont. | ||||||||
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 20 Description: Argos | ||||||||
| Neutrally buoyant floats | Quantity: 29 Description: RAFOS float launches & MAFOS deployments | ||||||||
| Contamination | |||||||||
| Other contaminant measurements | Description: cont. chlorinated paraffins, akkrylnitrates | ||||||||
| Meteorology | |||||||||
| Incident radiation | Description: cont. radiation thermometry | ||||||||
| Geology and geophysics | |||||||||
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 Description: Coremeters: minicorere, jointly with CTD soundings | ||||||||
| 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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