RRS James Cook Cruise JC88 ::Glasgow to Southampton FASTNEt Cruise to the Malin Shelf Edge 28th June to 24th July 2013
JC88 was the second of two cruises under the NERC-funded Consortium grant FASTNEt (Fluxes across the Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic). Sailing 08:30 BST on Friday 28th June 2013 from King George V Dock, Govan, JC88 was a 26 day cruise to the Malin shelf edge, retuning to Southampton at...
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Scottish Association for Marine Science
2013
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| Online Access: | https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/3f730b98-e9f3-46d9-9461-f6578a214491 https://pureadmin.uhi.ac.uk/ws/files/17584193/291_Report_JC088.pdf |
| Summary: | JC88 was the second of two cruises under the NERC-funded Consortium grant FASTNEt (Fluxes across the Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic). Sailing 08:30 BST on Friday 28th June 2013 from King George V Dock, Govan, JC88 was a 26 day cruise to the Malin shelf edge, retuning to Southampton at 09:00 on Wednesday 24th July 2013. The scientific aims for JC88 were four-fold: 1) A process study of the internal tide and its contribution to cross shelf exchange and vertical mixing, 2) An investigation of on-shelf intrusions of high-salinity water of oceanic origin, 3) deployment of long term platforms (Drifters and Gliders) for an investigation of the state of exchange at the shelf edge during the transition from summerstratified to winter well-mixed conditions and 4) A dye-release study of the recruitment of shelf waters into the off-shelf flowing bottom Ekman layer of the slop current. |
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