Weather Adviser 97

Cruise plan

Cruise Info.
Ship name (ship code)	Weather Adviser (74WA)
Cruise identifier	97
Cruise period	1973-05-02 — 1973-05-31
Status	Completed
Port of departure	Greenock, United Kingdom
Port of return	Greenock, United Kingdom
Purpose	Research
Objectives	Occupation of Ocean Weather Station INDIA (59N, 19W). IMER Sampling Programme; for add.inf.see ICES Oceanogr.Data lists and Invs.,No.18 & Annales Biol.,Vol.No.30
Chief scientist	C C Hopkins (Institute of Marine Environmental Research, Plymouth)
Ocean/sea areas
General	North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W)
Specific	Ocean Weather Station INDIA (59N, 19W)
Measurements
Physical oceanography
Transparency (eg transmissometer)	Quantity: 18
Chemical oceanography
Phosphate	Quantity: 3
Nitrate	Quantity: 3
Nitrite	Quantity: 3
Alkalinity	Quantity: 3
Biology and fisheries
Primary productivity	Quantity: 3 Description: photosynthesis measured by 14c uptake
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence)	Quantity: 21 Description: chlorophyll and phaeopigment
Phytoplankton	Quantity: 3 Description: WP3 net
Zooplankton	Quantity: number of hauls = 11 Description: 4 hauls using a Longhurst-Hardy plankton recorder