Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
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Cruise identifier | 2/73 |
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Cruise period | 1973-01-16 — 1973-01-24 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To lay a moored current meter array in the outer estuary.
2. To survey the levels of bed radioactivity as a follow up to the
release of labelled sludge made during CORELLA 11/1972.
3. To collaborate with RV TELLINA in a trial continuous release diffusion
experiment including testing of the new towed fluorometer.
4. To make further measurements to determine the force due to wind and
current on a parachute drogue dahn. |
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Chief scientist | John W Talbot (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.12 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 111 Description: S only |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 53 |
Current meters | Description: 11 Plessey planted in the Thames Estuary on Cr.2; retrieved on Cr.5 |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: drogues |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Phosphate | Quantity: number of samples = 80 |
Silicate | Quantity: number of samples = 60 |
Trace elements | Quantity: number of samples = 111 |
Contamination | |
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Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 111 Description: chemical pollution |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) | Quantity: number of samples = 111 |
Meteorology | |
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Occasional standard measurements | |
Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Dredge | Quantity: number of hauls = 35 |