Preliminary results of the oceanographic cruise of CCGS SIR JOHN FRANKLIN to Baffin Bay and Nares Strait, September 1986

• Main Author: Bourke, Robert H.
• Other Authors: Operations Research (OR), Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences (GSOIS)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 1986
• Subjects: Baffin Bay; Bathymetry; Salinity; Nares Strait; Physical Oceanography; SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; Temperature; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; Arctic; Breaker; Greenland; Nares; Arctic Submarine Laboratory; Baffin; Nares strait
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/30089

Interim Report for Period August 1986 - November 1986 iThis report describes the preliminary results of the cruise of the Canadian ice breaker |CCGS SIR JOHN FRANKLIN to northern Baffin Bay and Nares Strait during September 1986. Over !175 CTD stations were made including 28 taken during a 36-hour time series. Closely spaced Istations were acquired across Lancaster, Jones, and Smith Sounds. CTD data and bathymetric (profiles were obtained throughout the length of Nares Strait (to 82° 09'N)). Three transects were also made across the West Greenland Current in which a moderately strong front was noted. N 66001-86-WR00131 The work reported herein was supported in part by the Arctic Submarine Laboratory, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA under Work order N 66001-86-WR00131. http://archive.org/details/preliminaryresul010bour