L'Atalante 35A3CTH3_2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | L'Atalante (35A3) | ||||||||||||
| Cruise identifier | 35A3CTH3_2 | ||||||||||||
| Cruise period | 1995-02-18 — 1995-03-02 | ||||||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||||||
| Port of departure | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||||||||||
| Port of return | Dakar, Senegal | ||||||||||||
| Objectives | WOCE-France, CITHER 3 LEG 2, WOCE section A13
The scientific objective of this cruise was to study the flows at the meridional boundaries of the Southeastern Atlantic Basin, in the west the exchanges with the Argentine and Brazil Basins, and in the east the flows along the African continental slope. Hydrologic and geochemical parameters of the WOCE hydrographic Programme (WHP) were measured at 242 surface to bottom stations along two lines, one at 9° W from the continental slope of the Ivory Coast to latitude 45S, the other from Cape Town to the location 40° S-10° E, then northward to the Ghanaian continental slope. | ||||||||||||
| Chief scientist | Michel Arhan (IFREMER, Brest) | ||||||||||||
| Project | WOCE/CITHER | ||||||||||||
| Coordinating body | Lab. Physique des Oceans : IFREMER/CNRS/UBO, U Breme, U. Las Palmas, BPNL/Seq | ||||||||||||
| Cruise report |  (7.01 MB) | ||||||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||||||
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) South East Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) | ||||||||||||
| Track charts | (0.72 MB) | ||||||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||||||
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: Thermometre TQP et Thermosalinometre SIS | ||||||||||||
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 14 | ||||||||||||
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 135 | ||||||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 135 | ||||||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 134 Description: H73 Freon-12, Freon-11 | ||||||||||||
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: 135 Description: Voir M. J. Messias (LODYC/CNRS) | ||||||||||||
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | Description: Courantometre Doppler (75 et 300kHz) | ||||||||||||
| Chemical oceanography | |||||||||||||
| Oxygen | Quantity: 135 | ||||||||||||
| Carbon dioxide | Quantity: 135 Description: Voir Linda Bingler (BNPL/SEQUIM/USA) | ||||||||||||
| Carbon dioxide | Quantity: 49 Description: H74 Total inorganic carbon (TCO2) | ||||||||||||
| Phosphate | Quantity: 135 Description: Voir Pascal Morin (UBO) | ||||||||||||
| Nitrate | Quantity: 135 Description: Voir Pascal Morin (UBO) | ||||||||||||
| Silicate | Quantity: 135 Description: Voir Pascal Morin (UBO) | ||||||||||||
| Alkalinity | Quantity: 135 Description: Voir Gonzales (U. Las Palmas) | ||||||||||||
| pH | Quantity: 135 Description: Voir Gonzales (U. Las Palmas) | ||||||||||||
| Meteorology | |||||||||||||
| Routine standard measurements | Description: Centrale Meteo et Centrale Vent | ||||||||||||
| Geology and geophysics | |||||||||||||
| Multi-beam echosounding | Description: EM12D | ||||||||||||
| Magnetic measurements | |||||||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||||||
| 2 Single-beam echosounder | Horizontal spatial co-ordinates Date and time Bathymetry and Elevation
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