RV Pelagia PE240
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Pelagia (64PE) |
| Cruise identifier | PE240 |
| Cruise period | 2005-09-07 — 2005-10-05 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Het Horntje, Netherlands |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The re-survey of WOCE Hydrographic Program Repeat Section A1/AR7E between Ireland and Greenland as part of the CAMP programme and the deployment of long term moorings in the Irminger Sea for the LOCO, VAMOC and CIS programmes. |
| Chief scientist | Kees Veth (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) |
| Cruise report |  (2.74 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Subsurface temperature and salinity measurements | Description: A number of CTD casts were made throughout the cruise. No. of measurements not noted. |
| Current meters | Description: A number of CTD casts were made throughout the cruise. No. of measurements not noted. |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 44 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | |
| 4 Instrument mooring |
