Oceanographic Cruise Summary, Ross Sea, Antarctic, February 1968

• Main Authors: Car, Martial, Codispoti, Louis A.
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE NSTL STATION MS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1968
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *OCEANOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; INSTRUMENTATION; PARACHUTES; SALINITY; OCEANOGRAPHIC SHIPS; OCEAN BOTTOM SAMPLING; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING; SEA ICE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; MOORING; PARACHUTE DROGUES; ROSS SEA; Antarctic; Ross Sea; McMurdo Sound; Cape Bird; New Harbor; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0847324; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0847324

During February 1968, a two-phase operation was conducted in Antarctica by NAVOCEANO personnel. The first phase was a study of the currents in the McMurdo Sound region, and the second phase consisted of occupying the annual ice potential stations in the Ross Sea in support of NAVOCEANO's Antarctic Ice Prediction Program. Current measurements were made by tracking drogues and by mooring self-contained current meter arrays. Preliminary analysis of the drogue data indicates that currents in McMurdo Sound conform generally with the scheme outlined in H.O. Pub. 27 except for a southwest instead of a northwest drift into New Harbor. The data also indicate that the Cape Bird current may have been leaving the coast farther south than described.