RV Clione CLI13/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI13/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-09-04 — 1973-09-21 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To service JONSIS stations A and B.
2. As part of the MAFF contribution to the Joint North Sea Data Acquisition Project (JONSDAP) to:- (i) Lay 14 moored current meter stations in the Southern Bight. (ii) Release 50 Woodhead sea bed drifters at each of the moored stations. (iii) Take DRCM measurements over a 12.5 hour period alongside at least one of the moored stations. (iv) Measure temperature, salinity and turbidity over the MAFF trace-metal grid and bring back to Lowestoft water samples for trace-metal analysis. (v) Take part in a 4-ship DRCM exercise across the Straits of Dover. (vi) Track the drift of a parachute drogue through a triangle of current meter stations laid by Dutch participants in JONSDAP. |
| Chief scientist | John W Ramster (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Project | JONSDAP |
| Cruise report |  (0.38 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 48 Description: S only |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 48 |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: 14 days |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: bottom |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: drogues |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Trace elements | Quantity: number of stations = 45 |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
