Deployment: OC408-02

Deployment: 
OC408-02
Chief Scientist: 
Michael W. Lomas (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, BIOS)
Synonyms: 
New Production (NP)
Winter Mixing
OC408-2
Platform:
 R/V Oceanus
Platform Type:
 vessel
Start Date: 
2005-02-15
End Date: 
2005-03-16
Location: 
Northwestern Sargasso Sea roughly 35-28N and 58-68W, Water depths always exceeded 4200m
Deployment Report URL: 
http://data.bco-dmo.org/NewProduction/NP_Cruise_report_Oceanus408-1and2.pdf
Description

New Production During Winter Convective Mixing Events: A Missing Component of Current Estimates

Note the break in the cruise was due to the loss of the CTD.
Returned to Bermuda to pick up a spare CTD that had been flown in from WHOI.
 

Original cruise data are available from the NSF R2R data catalog