RV Clione CLI6/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI6/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-03-27 — 1973-04-05 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To re-lay JONSIS Station A and service JONSIS Station B.
2. To lay 8 moored current meter stations in a line stretching across the northern North Sea from Rattray Head, Scotland to Lim Fjord, Denmark. At each of the stations hydrographic serial observations will be made and 50 Woodhead sea-bed drifters released. 3. To make a temperature, salinity survey of UK coastal waters between Rattray Head and Flamborough Head and as far eastwards as the longitude of JONSIS Station B. |
| Chief scientist | John W Ramster (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.20 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 19 Description: S only |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 19 Description: 17 bottom |
| Current meters | Description: cr.6:82days;cr.9:9meters,60days |
