Cruise Report - RSS Discovery DY053, 26th June to 23rd July 2016, King George V Dock, Glasgow to Reykjavick, Iceland. OSNAP Mooring Cruise Report

• Main Author: Cunningham, Stuart A.
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic; North Atlantic Current; subpolar gyre; meridional overturning circulation; MOC; AMOC; bottom pressure recorder; BPR; cruise DY053; CTD; current meter; MicroCAT; mooring array; moorings; thermohaline circulation; glider; Seaglider; OSNAP; UK-OSNAP; Rockall Plateau; Rockall-Hatton Plateau; Rockall Trough; Reykjanes Ridge; Iceland Basin; Irminger Basin; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Greenland; Reykjanes; Hatton-Rockall Basin; Iceland; Newfoundland; north atlantic current
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/556551; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.556551

This cruise report details the scientific programme for the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) led by Professor Stuart Cunningham on RSS Discovery DY053. This cruise is a contribution to the international Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Programme (OSNAP). Two additional scientific teams (from Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution / Ocean University of China) participated in this cruise. SAMS objectives were to recover and redeploy moorings in the Rockall Trough, measuring temperature, salinity, currents and bottom pressure and; recover Seaglider SG605 ‘’Bowmore’’ in the Hatton-Rockall Basin. The OSNAP array deployed since July 2014 is purposefully designed to provide a continuous record of the full-water column, trans-basin fluxes of heat, mass and freshwater in the subpolar North Atlantic, on a section from Newfoundland to Greenland to Scotland. Cunningham S.A. et al. 2016: RSS Discovery DY053, 26th June to 23rd July 2016, King George V Dock, Glasgow to Reykjavick, Iceland. OSNAP Mooring Cruise Report. Scottish Association for Marine Science Report, No. 293, Oban, UK, 123pp.