ELEFANTE-12 Cruise, RV Hespérides
ELEFANTE-12 Cruise (29HE20120119) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2012 A physical-geological mooring is installed at the East of Elephant Island in order to monitor the presence / absence of the Antarctic slope front on the south slope of the South Scotia Sea, and to study its role...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/231958 2024-02-11T09:58:39+01:00 ELEFANTE-12 Cruise, RV Hespérides Flexas, María del Mar CSIC - Unidad de Tecnología Marina (UTM) 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/231958 https://doi.org/10.20351/29HE20120119 unknown https://doi.org/10.20351/29HE20120119 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/231958 doi:10.20351/29HE20120119 none dataset http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_ddb1 2012 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.20351/29HE20120119 2024-01-16T11:03:50Z ELEFANTE-12 Cruise (29HE20120119) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2012 A physical-geological mooring is installed at the East of Elephant Island in order to monitor the presence / absence of the Antarctic slope front on the south slope of the South Scotia Sea, and to study its role in the modification of intermediate waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The addition of a sediment trap will study the flow of sediments associated with the dynamics of the area and identify terrigenous and biogenic composition. 1) Placement of an anchor constituted by current meters and temperature sensors, salinity and pressure at different depths, in addition to a sediment trap placed near the bottom. The anchor has a length of about 700 m and can be installed on a background of about 1200 m. 2 )Completion of several transects for water sampling using CTD. The purpose of these transects is to calibrate the anchored instruments and carry out a hydrographic survey of the slope front and the southern border of the circumpolar current at the moment of anchoring. The CTDs will be made to the bottom Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Elephant Island Scotia Sea Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Antarctic Elefante ENVELOPE(-55.167,-55.167,-61.167,-61.167) Elephant Island ENVELOPE(-55.184,-55.184,-61.085,-61.085) Scotia Sea The Antarctic |
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ELEFANTE-12 Cruise (29HE20120119) carried out on the Research Vessel Hespérides in 2012 A physical-geological mooring is installed at the East of Elephant Island in order to monitor the presence / absence of the Antarctic slope front on the south slope of the South Scotia Sea, and to study its role in the modification of intermediate waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The addition of a sediment trap will study the flow of sediments associated with the dynamics of the area and identify terrigenous and biogenic composition. 1) Placement of an anchor constituted by current meters and temperature sensors, salinity and pressure at different depths, in addition to a sediment trap placed near the bottom. The anchor has a length of about 700 m and can be installed on a background of about 1200 m. 2 )Completion of several transects for water sampling using CTD. The purpose of these transects is to calibrate the anchored instruments and carry out a hydrographic survey of the slope front and the southern border of the circumpolar current at the moment of anchoring. The CTDs will be made to the bottom |
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ELEFANTE-12 Cruise, RV Hespérides |
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ELEFANTE-12 Cruise, RV Hespérides |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10261/231958 https://doi.org/10.20351/29HE20120119 |
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ENVELOPE(-55.167,-55.167,-61.167,-61.167) ENVELOPE(-55.184,-55.184,-61.085,-61.085) |
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Antarctic Elefante Elephant Island Scotia Sea The Antarctic |
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Antarctic Elefante Elephant Island Scotia Sea The Antarctic |
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Antarc* Antarctic Elephant Island Scotia Sea |
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Antarc* Antarctic Elephant Island Scotia Sea |
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