BREDDIES Cruise, RV Hespérides

• Main Authors: Sangrà, Pablo, CSIC - Unidad de Tecnología Marina (UTM)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bransfield Strait; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/231894; https://doi.org/10.20351/29HE20021227

BREDDIES Cruise (29HE20021227) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2002 Mesoscale vortices/meanders in the central portion of the Bransfield Strait: identification and physical–biological coupling-BREDDIES. The general objective of this project is their identification and the study of the coupling between the underlying physical processes and the plankton community. With this aim an interdisciplinary sampling was conducted in the region, with spatial resolution and a degree of interdisciplinary interaction not previously carried on. Through the observations we aim at gaining a better physical and biological characterization of these structures as well as understanding the adjustment mechanisms between the physical processes (water column stability, diapycnal mixing, advection) and the planktonic community (abundance and structure). Additionally we will develop a physical-biological model that allows us to understand and diagnose the nature of such coupling. In this way the results of this project could contribute to the identification of mesoscale structures not previously described and to a better understanding of the adjustment between the planktonic community and the physical environment in the marine antarctic system at the mesoscale range