Almeida Carvalho CORVET
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | Almeida Carvalho (68CA) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cruise identifier | CORVET | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cruise period | 1996-11-12 — 1996-11-17 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives | Sedimentological survey (with multicorer, boxcorer and grab) on the Galician Margin and offshore northern Portuguese coast. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chief scientist | Joao Vitorino (Portuguese Hydrographic Institute) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Project | OMEX2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||||||||||||||
| General | Bay of Biscay | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Specific | NW Iberian Shelf/Slope 41-42 N 8-10 W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 Paddle wheel current meter | Moored instrument depth Date and time Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) Moored instrument depth Date and time Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
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| Discrete samples | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 33 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column Carbon concentrations in suspended particulate material Particulate total and organic carbon concentrations in the water column Sediment grain size parameters Suspended particulate material grain size parameters | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 Instrument mooring | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 Multicorer | Geological sample radioactivity Sediment water content, porosity and surface area Sediment grain size parameters Carbon concentrations in sediment | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 44 Shipek grab | Geological sample radioactivity Sediment water content, porosity and surface area Sediment grain size parameters Carbon concentrations in sediment |
