Arabian Sea cruise reports from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project)

Website: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/2916
Data Type: cruise report, document
Version: final
Version Date: 1996-01-12

Project
» U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea (Arabian Sea)

Program
» U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS)
ContributorsAffiliationRole
Arnone, RobertNaval Research LaboratoryChief Scientist
Balch, William M.Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean SciencesChief Scientist
Barber, RichardDuke UniversityChief Scientist
Brink, Kenneth H.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)Chief Scientist, Principal Investigator
Codispoti, Louis A.Old Dominion University (ODU)Chief Scientist
Eriksen, CharlesUniversity of Washington (UW)Chief Scientist
Gardner, Wilford D.Texas A&M University (TAMU)Chief Scientist
Honjo, SusumuWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)Chief Scientist
Lee, CindyStony Brook University (SUNY Stony Brook)Chief Scientist
Marra, John F.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)Chief Scientist
Roman, Michael R.University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES/HPL)Chief Scientist
Rudnick, DanielUniversity of California-San Diego (UCSD-SIO)Chief Scientist
Smith, Sharon L.University of MiamiChief Scientist, Co-Principal Investigator
Weller, Robert A.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)Chief Scientist
Young, DaveNaval Research LaboratoryChief Scientist
Dymond, JackOregon State University (OSU)Co-Chief Scientist
Prell, WarrenBrown UniversityCo-Chief Scientist
Flagg, CharlesBrookhaven National LaboratoryCo-Principal Investigator
Morrison, John M.North Carolina State University - Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (NCSU MEAS)Co-Principal Investigator
Chandler, Cynthia L.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)BCO-DMO Data Manager


Dataset Description

Cruise report updates from R/V THOMPSON for all Arabian Sea cruises.


Methods & Sampling

See Platform deployments for cruise specific documentation


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Parameters

Parameters for this dataset have not yet been identified

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Deployments

TT039

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Report
Start Date
1994-09-18
End Date
1994-10-07
Description
Intercalibration and Training Cruise

TT040

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1994-10-11
End Date
1994-10-25
Description
Mooring Deployment Cruise

Methods & Sampling
Purpose: Bottom survey and mooring deployment.

TT041

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1994-10-28
End Date
1994-11-21
Description
Methods & Sampling
Purpose: Bottom Survey, Sediment Trap Deployment and Coring

TT042

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1994-11-28
End Date
1994-12-19
Description
Methods & Sampling
Purpose: SeaSoar/NRL Cruise #1 Cruise report was contributed in 2 parts. Part 1

TT043

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Report
Start Date
1995-01-08
End Date
1995-02-05
Description
Purpose: Process Cruise #1 (Late NE Monsoon)

Methods & Sampling
Purpose: Process Cruise #1 (Late NE Monsoon)

TT044

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-02-09
End Date
1995-02-28
Description
Methods & Sampling
Purpose: SeaSoar/NRL Cruise #2

TT045

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-03-14
End Date
1995-04-10
Description
Methods & Sampling
Purpose: Process 2 Cruise Cruise report was contributed in 3 parts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 final

TT046

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-04-14
End Date
1995-04-29
Description
Mooring Recovery and Redeployment Cruise

Methods & Sampling
Mooring Recovery and Redeployment Cruise

TT047

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-05-03
End Date
1995-05-22
Description
Sediment Trap Servicing, Coring, Process 3

Methods & Sampling
Process Cruise #3, Coring and Recover & Redeploy Sediment Traps

TT048

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-06-21
End Date
1995-07-13
Description
Methods & Sampling
SeaSoar 3 Cruise Update

TT049

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-07-17
End Date
1995-08-15
Description
Methods & Sampling
Process Cruise #4 (Middle SW Monsoon)

TT050

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-08-18
End Date
1995-09-15
Description
Methods & Sampling
Process Cruise 5 Update

TT051

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-09-19
End Date
1995-10-11
Description
Methods & Sampling
SeaSoar #4 Cruise Update

TT052

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-10-14
End Date
1995-10-25
Description
Mooring Recovery Cruise

Methods & Sampling
Mooring Recovery

TT053

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-10-29
End Date
1995-11-26
Description
Methods & Sampling
Process Cruise #6 (bio-optics)

TT054

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-11-30
End Date
1995-12-28
Description
Methods & Sampling
Process Cruise #t (Early NE Monsoon)

TT055

Website
Platform
R/V Thomas G. Thompson
Start Date
1995-12-31
End Date
1996-01-16
Description
Sediment Trap Recovery

Methods & Sampling
Sediment Trap Recovery


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Project Information

U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea (Arabian Sea)


Coverage: Arabian Sea


The U.S. Arabian Sea Expedition which began in September 1994 and ended in January 1996, had three major components: a U.S. JGOFS Process Study, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF); Forced Upper Ocean Dynamics, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) initiative; and shipboard and aircraft measurements supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Expedition consisted of 17 cruises aboard the R/V Thomas Thompson, year-long moored deployments of five instrumented surface buoys and five sediment-trap arrays, aircraft overflights and satellite observations. Of the seventeen ship cruises, six were allocated to repeat process survey cruises, four to SeaSoar mapping cruises, six to mooring and benthic work, and a single calibration cruise which was essentially conducted in transit to the Arabian Sea.



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Program Information

U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS)


Coverage: Global


The United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study was a national component of international JGOFS and an integral part of global climate change research.

The U.S. launched the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) in the late 1980s to study the ocean carbon cycle. An ambitious goal was set to understand the controls on the concentrations and fluxes of carbon and associated nutrients in the ocean. A new field of ocean biogeochemistry emerged with an emphasis on quality measurements of carbon system parameters and interdisciplinary field studies of the biological, chemical and physical process which control the ocean carbon cycle. As we studied ocean biogeochemistry, we learned that our simple views of carbon uptake and transport were severely limited, and a new "wave" of ocean science was born. U.S. JGOFS has been supported primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research. U.S. JGOFS, ended in 2005 with the conclusion of the Synthesis and Modeling Project (SMP).



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Funding

Funding SourceAward
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE)
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE)

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