A moared array along the southern boundary of the Brazil Basin for the Deep Basin Experiment - Report on a joint experiment 1991-1992.

Tarbell, Susan, Meyer, Ralf, Hogg, Nelson and Zenk, Walter (1994) A moared array along the southern boundary of the Brazil Basin for the Deep Basin Experiment - Report on a joint experiment 1991-1992. Open Access . Berichte aus dem Institut für Meereskunde an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, 243 . Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany, 107 pp. DOI 10.3289/ifm_ber_243.

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Abstract

The Deep Basin Experiment (DBE) is an international effort and apart of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment with the principal objective of improving our knowledge of the subthermocline circulation. The DBE fieldwork is focussed on the Brazil Basin and this report is concemed with a moored array situated along its southem boundary which was installed in early 1991 to measure the inflow and outflow to the Basin and to investigate the Brazil Current near 30S. This moored array was a joint undertaking by the Institut für Meereskunde of the University of Kiel and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Moorings were deployed on Meteor Cruise 15, leg I and retrieved on Meteor cruise 22, legs 3 and 4. A total of 57 conventional current meters and two Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers were set on 13 moarings with some concentration within the Brazil Current and the Vema Channel. CTDs were taken at each mooring site as well as in between. Some of the recovered instruments were reset in the Hunter Channel, a suspected additional connection between the Argentine Basin and the Brazil Basin. A later report will
summarize this data after it is recovered in May 1994.

Document Type: Report (Research Report)
Additional Information: zugl.: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report: WHOI-94.07
Keywords: R.V. Meteor; M15; M22
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB1 Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics > FB1-PO Physical Oceanography
Open Access Journal?: Yes
Publisher: Institut für Meereskunde
Projects: WOCE
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Date Deposited: 21 Apr 2016 10:31
Last Modified: 11 Oct 2016 09:22
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/32143

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