RRS Discovery Cruise 298, 23 Aug-25 Sep 2005. Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge (CFER-1)

Bacon, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-9373. 2006 RRS Discovery Cruise 298, 23 Aug-25 Sep 2005. Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge (CFER-1). Southampton, UK, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, 113pp. (National Oceanography Centre Southampton Cruise Report 10)

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This report describes scientific activities during RRS Discovery cruise 298 in the vicinity of Cape Farewell, southern Greenland, during early autumn 2005. A Deep Western Boundary Current array of seven moorings was deployed, and two IFREMER moorings were recovered, serviced and redeployed; also, a WHOI mooring was recovered. Hydrographic work comprised an area survey of 63 CTD/LADCP stations; up to 24 water samples were captured on each station for the measurement of salinity, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, CFCs (CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113 and CCl4), and oxygen isotope fraction (δ18O). Continuous underway measurements comprised: navigation; currents, using ship-mounted ADCPs (75 and 150 kHz); meteorology; sea surface temperature and salinity; 3.5 kHz sub-bottom sediment profiling; and bathymetry. Three sediment cores were obtained. Six floats / drifters were launched. D298 (CFER-1) is a part of the project “Cape Farewell and Eirik Ridge: Interannual to Millennial Thermohaline Circulation Variability”, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council as part of its “Rapid Climate Change” Directed Research Programme.

Item Type:	Publication - Report (Other)
Additional Keywords:	ADCP, Atlantic Ocean, Cape Farewell, CFC, cruise D298 2005, CTD, deep western boundary current, Discovery, dissolved oxygen, Eirik Ridge, Lowered ADCP, meteorology, moorings, nutrients, oxygen isotopes, sediment cores, shipboard ADCP, sub-bottom profiler
Date made live:	05 Dec 2006 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/142442

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