RRS Discovery Cruises 277/278, RAPID mooring cruise report, February - March 2004
RRS Discovery Cruises 277/278, RAPID mooring cruise report, February - March 2004
This report describes the mooring operations conducted during RRS Discovery Cruises D277 and D278. These cruises were conducted between 26 February 2004 and 30 March 2004, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded RAPID Programme to monitor the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5N.
Cruise D277 was from Tenerife to the Bahamas with participants from the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), with cruise D278 a barter cruise also involving participants from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami.
An array of moorings were deployed across the Atlantic in order to set up a pre-operational prototype system to continuously observe the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). This array will be refined and refurbished during subsequent years.
The deployed mooring array consisted of 19 moorings from the SOC, with 3 from the RSMAS. Moorings are focused at the Eastern and Western boundaries, along with a grouping at the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
The instruments deployed on the array consists of a variety of current meters, bottom pressure recorders and CTD loggers which, combined with time series measurements of the Florida Channel Current and wind stress estimates, will be used to determine the strength and structure of the MOC at 26.5N.
Atlantic Ocean, bottom pressure recorder, BPR, cruise D277 2004, cruise D278 2004, CTD, current meter, Discovery, Meridional Overturning Circulation, MOC, mooring
array, Moorings, North Atlantic, RAPID, RAPIDMOC, THC, thermohaline circulation
Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
Rayner, D.
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Cunningham, S.A.
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2005
Rayner, D.
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Cunningham, S.A.
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Rayner, D. and Cunningham, S.A.
(2005)
RRS Discovery Cruises 277/278, RAPID mooring cruise report, February - March 2004
(Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report, 53)
Southampton, GB.
Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
103pp.
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Abstract
This report describes the mooring operations conducted during RRS Discovery Cruises D277 and D278. These cruises were conducted between 26 February 2004 and 30 March 2004, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded RAPID Programme to monitor the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5N.
Cruise D277 was from Tenerife to the Bahamas with participants from the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC), with cruise D278 a barter cruise also involving participants from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami.
An array of moorings were deployed across the Atlantic in order to set up a pre-operational prototype system to continuously observe the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). This array will be refined and refurbished during subsequent years.
The deployed mooring array consisted of 19 moorings from the SOC, with 3 from the RSMAS. Moorings are focused at the Eastern and Western boundaries, along with a grouping at the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
The instruments deployed on the array consists of a variety of current meters, bottom pressure recorders and CTD loggers which, combined with time series measurements of the Florida Channel Current and wind stress estimates, will be used to determine the strength and structure of the MOC at 26.5N.
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Published date: 2005
Keywords:
Atlantic Ocean, bottom pressure recorder, BPR, cruise D277 2004, cruise D278 2004, CTD, current meter, Discovery, Meridional Overturning Circulation, MOC, mooring
array, Moorings, North Atlantic, RAPID, RAPIDMOC, THC, thermohaline circulation
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/15333
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Date deposited: 31 Mar 2005
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