Hydrographic Measurements in the Grenada Basin, Southeastern Caribbean Sea, January 1980.

• Main Authors: Burns, Donald A, Gove, Marvin A, Lombard, Norman V, Boyd, Janice D, Raffa, Stanley E
• Other Authors: NAVAL OCEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1981
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; DENSITY; MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; GRAPHS; DEPTH; SALINITY; BASINS(GEOGRAPHIC); CARIBBEAN SEA; Grenada Basin; Antarctic; Antarc*; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA103960; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA103960

As part of a study on mesoscale variability in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, we occupied 117 conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) stations and made 235 expendable bathythermograph (XBT) drops during 12-27 January 1980. We present the cruise track of the ship and also the tracks of three aircraft XBT (AXBT) flights made concurrently. We discuss data editing and quality control procedures that were used for CTD (but not for XBT and AXBT) data and present vertical profiles and TS diagrams for each station. In addition to the four water types that have long been known to be present (surface water, subtropical water, Antarctic intermediate water, and North Atlantic deep water) the profiles show many features at vertical scales of order 10 meters. (Author)