TIME SERIES FORM

TIME SERIES NAME : C03

IDENTIFIER : IO481997TS016

Ship Name : R/V URANIA

Call Sign : IQSU

Ship Type : Research ship

 

Project : MAST III/MTPII/MATER

 

Coordinating body : CNR - ISDGM Stazione Oceanografica

 


Chief Scientist :

A) Astraldi Mario
Laboratory : CNR- ISDGM Stazione Oceanografica
Address : c/o Centro ENEA
      Forte S. Teresa
      19036 Lerici - La Spezia
      Italy
Tel : +39 - 187 - 978301
Fax : +39 - 187 - 970585
Email : astraldi@estosf.santateresa.enea.it

 

TYPE OF STATION : Fixed Mooring

OBJECTIVES : Quantification of the exchanges of water masses through the Sicily, Sardinia and Tunisia region and assessment of consequences of these exchanges to the recipient basins.

 

Location Duration

Date

Time (GMT)

Latitude

Longitude

Bottom Depth (m)

Cruise

Start

25/09/96

18:15

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

Ma196

End

16/01/97

06:15

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

Ma297

Start

16/01/97

10:45

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

Ma297

End

05/07/97

16:45

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

  

Start

05/07/97

21:15

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

  

End

03/10/97

05:30

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

Ma397

Start

03/10/97

17:00

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

Ma397

End

02/05/98

13:30

37° 27' 47"

011° 09' 49"

360

Ma498

 

INSTRUMENTS LIST:

INSTRUMENT

DEPTH (m)

DISTANCE TO BOTTOM (m)

MEASURED PARAMETERS

SAMP. RATE (minutes)

WHO?

Current meter

50

310

PRES, TEMP, CNDC, HCDT, HCSP

30

A

Current meter

100

260

PRES, TEMP, CNDC, HCDT, HCSP

30

A

Current meter

250

110

PRES, TEMP, CNDC, HCDT, HCSP

30

A

Current meter

340

20

PRES, TEMP, CNDC, HCDT, HCSP

30

A

 

Technical Description : The chain was equipped with four calibrated Aanderaa current meters RCM7, two EG&G acoustic releases, Argos transmitter, syntactic material, buoys and Kevlar cables. Further two current meter at depth 50 and 100 m were added at the chain during the second cruise. The Argos transmitter was mounted at the top of the chain. Since this instrument starts to transmit its position as soon as it reaches the surface, its use allows to control that the chain is not accidentally removed by fischermen.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES :
1) Sicily Strait Observations, Report of the September-October 1996 oceanographic cruise, MTP-2 MATER, Work 120, Sub-task I.5.2.b, CNR-ISDGM, 1996.
2) Sicily Strait Observations, Report of the January 1997 oceanographic cruise, MTP-2 MATER, Work 120, Sub-task I.5.2.b, CNR-ISDGM, 1997.
3) Sicily Strait Observations, Report of one-year activity, MTP-2 MATER, Work 120, Sub-task I.5.2.b, CNR-ISDGM, Stazione Zoologica, Limnoceane, June 1997.
4) Sicily Strait Observations, Report of the April-May 1998 oceanographic cruise, MTP-2 MATER, Work 120, Sub-task I.5.2.b, CNR-ISDGM, 1998.
5) Sicily Strait Observations, Report of the October 1998 oceanographic cruise, MTP-2 MATER, Work 120, Sub-task I.5.2.b, CNR-ISDGM, 1998.
6) Sicily Straits Monitoring, Report of second-year activity, MTP-2 MATER, Work 120, Sub-task I.5.2.b, CNR-ISDGM, Stazione Zoologica, Limnoceane, June 1998.

 

Last update 09/06/2000

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