Campaña: D359

The purpose of the cruise was the refurbishment of an array of moorings on the mid-Atlantic Ridge and off the Moroccan Coast at nominal latitude of 26.5°N. The moorings are part of an Atlantic-wide mooring array for monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux. The array is a joint UK/US programme and is known as the RAPID-WATCH/MOCHA array.

The RAPID transatlantic array consists of 24 moorings of which 21 are maintained by the UK, and 20 bottom landers of which 16 are maintained by the UK. The moorings are primarily instrumented with self logging instruments measuring conductivity, temperature and pressure. Direct measurements of currents are made in the shallow and deep western boundary currents. The bottom landers are instrumented with bottom pressure recorders (also known as tide gauges), measuring the weight of water above the instrument.

A sediment trap mooring NOGST was also recovered and redeployed for the Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Group at the NOCS. CTD stations were conducted at convenient times throughout the cruise for purposes of providing pre and post deployment calibrations for mooring instrumentation and for testing mooring releases prior to deployment. Shipboard underway measurements were systematically logged, processed and calibrated, including: waves (spectra of energy and significant wave height), surface meteorology (air pressure, temperature, wind speed and direction and radiation (total incident and photosynthetically active), 6m depth sea temperatures and salinities, water depth, navigation (differential GPS measurements feeding two independent and different receivers, heading, pitch and roll from a four antenna Ashtec ADU5 receiver, gyro heading and ships speed relative to the water using an electromagnetic log). Water velocity profiles from 15m to approximately 500m depth were obtained using a ship mounted 75 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler. Seawater samples from CTD stations and of the sea-surface were obtained for calibration and analysed on a salinometer referencing these samples against standard sea water. For velocity data (wind and currents) measured relative to the ship considerable effort was made to obtain the best possible earth-referenced velocities.

Four APEX Argo floats supplied by the Met Office were deployed at pre-assigned locations, filling gaps in the network.

 

. Campaña: D359. http://datos.ieo.es/geonetwork/srv/api/records/urn:SDN:CSR:LOCAL:SI29201012170
 

INSPIRE

Identificación

Identificador del fichero
urn:SDN:CSR:LOCAL:SI29201012170   XML
Jerarquía
Campaña/Survey Campañas
Recurso en línea
resource_protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
resource_protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
Identificador del recurso
code
urn:SDN:CSR:LOCAL:9958
Idioma del metadato
Spanish; Castilian
Codificacióin
Formato
XML
Versión
1
Proyección
code
World Geodetic System 84
 

Classification of data and services

Categoría temática
  • Océanos
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource
Coupled resource
 
 

Palabras clave

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Tema )
  • Oceanographic geographical features
Ten-degree Marsden Squares ( marsden_square )
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
SeaDataNet Ports Gazetteer ( departure_place )
  • Mindelo
SeaDataNet Ports Gazetteer ( arrival_place )
  • Santa Cruz de Tenerife
International Standards Organisation countries ( departure_country )
  • Cape Verde
International Standards Organisation countries ( arrival_country )
  • Spain
ICES Platform Codes ( platform )
  • Discovery
SeaVoX Platform Categories ( platform_class )
  • research vessel
SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer ( Lugar )
  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Other keywords
 
 

Cobertura geográfica

N
S
E
W


N
S
E
W


N
S
E
W


N
S
E
W


N
S
E
W


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S
E
W


 

Temporal reference

Extensión tempora
Inicio
2010-12-17T00:00:00Z
Fin
2011-01-14T00:00:00Z
Extensión tempora
Fecha ( Creación )
2011-01-14
 

Quality and validity

Linaje
El Centro de datos aplica controles de calidad estandarizados a todos los datos de los que es responsable. Contacta con el Centro de datos para más información.
 

Conformidad

Conformidad
Conformidad
 

Conformidad

Conformidad
Conformidad
Explicación
See the referenced specification
Explicación
See the referenced specification
 

Restrictions on access and use

Limitación de uso
Not applicable
Restricciones de Acceso
Restricciones de Acceso
 

Restrictions on access and use

 

Responsible organization (s)

Contacto para el recurso
Nombre de la organización
National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
Email
enquiries@noc.ac.uk
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contacto para el recurso
Nombre de la organización
National Oceanography Centre (Southampton)
Email
enquiries@noc.ac.uk
 

Metadata information

Contacto para el metadato
Nombre de la organización
Instituto Español de Oceanografía
Email
N/A
Fecha
2021-11-28
Idioma del metadato
Spanish; Castilian
Codificación
utf8 UTF8
 
 

SDS

Conformance class 1: invocable

Access Point URL
Endpoint URL
Technical specification
 

Conformance class 2: interoperable

Coordinate reference system
 
Quality of Service
 
Restricciones de Acceso
Limitation
 
Use constraints
Limitation
 
Responsible custodian
Contacto para el recurso
 
 

Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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