RRS Discovery Cruise 230, 07 Aug-17 Sep 1997. Two hydrographic sections across the boundaries of the subpolar gyre: FOUREX

• Main Author: Bacon, S.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Southampton Oceanography Centre 1998
• Subjects: Greenland; Irminger Basin; Rockall Trough; Cape Farewell; Denmark Strait; East Greenland; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/100306/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/100306/1/soccr016.pdf

This report describes RRS Discovery Cruise 230, designed as a repeat of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) survey section 4, roughly from Cape Finisterre (Spain) to Cape Farewell (Greenland). IGY 4 was first surveyed in 1957, so this repeat gives a 40–year look at decadal variability in the No...