RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 135, 24 Oct-18 Nov 2001. ATSR validation cruise: Seychelles - Durban

Pascal, R.W.. 2002 RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 135, 24 Oct-18 Nov 2001. ATSR validation cruise: Seychelles - Durban. Southampton, UK, Southampton Oceanography Centre, 78pp. (Southampton Oceanography Centre Cruise Report 39)

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Abstract/Summary

This report describes RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 135, an ATSR satellite validation cruise which took place in October-November 2001. The cruise was divided into two legs: Leg 1 primarily focussed on ATSR satellite validation and Leg 2 was planned around the recovery of Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) moorings. Throughout the cruise real-time measurements of the air-sea fluxes of momentum, sensible heat, latent heat and CO2 were made, in addition to the usual mean meteorological parameters. The main aim of Leg 1 (Seychelles to Seychelles) was to achieve as many ATSR satellite overpass validations as possible with the SISTeR radiometer. In addition 5 APEX floats were deployed in support of the ARGO Programme and two XBT equatorial sections were made. During Leg 2 (Seychelles to Durban) the key objective was to recover an array of seven moorings, on a section across the Mozambique Channel roughly at its narrowest part, which had been previously deployed by NIOZ. Further ATSR overpass validations were achieved and two more XBT sections were made.

Item Type:	Publication - Report
Additional Keywords:	APEX floats, ARGO, ATSR, Charles Darwin, cruise 135 2001, Indian Ocean, INDTWMOZ, meteorological measurement, moorings, Mozambique Channel, radiometers, radiosonde balloons, SISTER, surface fluxes, XBTs
Date made live:	01 Dec 2003 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/100251

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