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Weather Reporter 118
Cruise plan
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | Weather Reporter (74WR) |
Cruise identifier | 118 |
Cruise period | 1973-09-24 — 1973-10-22 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Greenock, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Greenock, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Occupation of Ocean Weather Station INDIA (59N, 19W). IMER Sampling Programme; for add.inf.see ICES Oceanogr.Data lists and Invs.,No.18 & Annales Biol.,Vol.No.30 |
Chief scientist | D H Jones (Institute of Marine Environmental Research, Plymouth) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | Ocean Weather Station INDIA (59N, 19W) |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Quantity: 20 |
Chemical oceanography | |
Phosphate | Quantity: 4 |
Nitrate | Quantity: 4 |
Nitrite | Quantity: 4 |
Alkalinity | Quantity: 4 |
Contamination | |
Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: 6 Description: organochlorine residues in zooplankton and young fish |
Biology and fisheries | |
Primary productivity | Quantity: 3 Description: photosynthesis measured by 14c uptake |
Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: 22 Description: chlorophyll and phaeopigment |
Phytoplankton | Quantity: 3 Description: WP3 net |
Zooplankton | Quantity: number of hauls = 17 Description: 5 hauls using a Longhurst-Hardy plankton recorder |