RRS Ernest Shackleton ES033b
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Ernest Shackleton (74EE) | ||||
| Cruise identifier | ES033b | ||||
| Cruise period | 2009-03-13 — 2009-03-26 | ||||
| Status | Completed | ||||
| Port of departure | Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | ||||
| Port of return | Stanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | ||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||
| Objectives | ES033 undertook physical oceanographic activities in the northern Weddell Sea (near the South Orkney Islands, and in the southern Weddell Sea, in the general area of Brunt Ice Shelf. Four projects were served by the cruise:
1. Long Term Monitoring and Survey (LTMS) component (British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen (BCCR)) 2. SASSI-UK project (University of East Anglia (UEA), BAS and the Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS)) 3. ACES-FOCAS BAS core project (BAS and University of California, Santa Cruz) 4. IPY project Bi-Polar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (BIAC). (University of Bergen) | ||||
| Chief scientist | Keith Nicholls (British Antarctic Survey) | ||||
| Project | SASSI-UK | ||||
| Coordinating body | University of East Anglia (UEA), Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS) | ||||
| Cruise report |  (2.66 MB) | ||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||
| General | Southern Ocean | ||||
| Specific | Southern Weddell Sea | ||||
| Track charts | (0.17 MB) | ||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||
| 9 CTD/STD cast | Reference numbers Salinity of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Temperature of the water column Density of the water column Reference numbers Salinity of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Temperature of the water column Density of the water column
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