SPRAYALIS

Name: SPRAYALIS
Start: 2010-11-03
End: 2010-11-06
Location: Southwest Pacific Ocean (140W)

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set SPRAYALIS
Ship	Alis
Ship owner	IRD
Dates	03/11/2010 - 06/11/2010
Chief scientist(s)	DURAND Fabien
	LABORATOIRE D'ETUDES EN GÉOPHYSIQUE ET OCÉANOGRAPHIE SPATIALES - UMR 5566 14 avenue Edouard Belin 31400 Toulouse +33 (0)5 61 33 47 13 https://www.legos.omp.eu/
DOI	10.17600/10100050
Objective	The cruise theme was to study the East Caledonian Current's variability. The objectives were to deploy a subsurface current meter mooring at the heart of the current vein and to make a hydrological transect across the current vein. This is part of the ALTIGLIDEX project.

Sea/Ocean

Southwest Pacific Ocean (140W)

(Pente Nord-Est de l'Ile de Lifou)

Ports

Port of departure : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Port of return : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Scientific Authority

IRD CENTRE DE NOUMEA

101 promenade Roger Laroque

BP A5

98848 NOUMEA CEDEX

(+687) 26 10 00

nouvelle-caledonie@ird.fr

https://nouvelle-caledonie.ird.fr/

Participating bodie(s)

IRD

Discipline(s)

CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
D01	Current meters 5 courantomètres mécaniques (200m, 300m, 400m, 600m, 1000m)	-	DURAND Fabien
D71	Current profiler (eg ADCP) 2 adcps 300kHz à 80m et à 130m (couche mesurée : 0-130m)	-	DURAND Fabien
G73	Single-beam echosounding Sondeur EK500 (sur zone 20°24'36''S-20°27'S)x(167°14'24"E-167°17'24"E)	-	DURAND Fabien
H10	CTD stations CTD	4 stations	VARILLON David
H11	Subsurface meas. underway (T,S) Thermosalinographe de l'Alis (Echantillonnage pour post-calibration)	-	VARILLON David
H13	Bathythermograph XBT's	-	MENKES Christophe

Summary of measurements

-Bathymetric survey in the target-zone for current meter mooring.
-Deployment of current meter mooring.
-CTD section.
-XBT shots.

Location map

Positionning system

Geodetic system : WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1984 = WGS84

Positioning system : GPS naturel

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Ganachaud A., Cravatte S., Melet A., Schiller A., Holbrook N. J., Sloyan B. M., Widlansky M. J., Bowen M., Verron J., Wiles P., Ridgway K., Sutton P., Sprintall J., Steinberg C., Brassington G., Cai W., Davis R., Gasparin F., Gourdeau L., Hasegawa T., Kessler W., Maes C., Takahashi K., Richards K. J., Send U. (2014). The Southwest Pacific Ocean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE). Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans, 119(11), 7660-7686. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009678 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00244/35504/

References of Technical Reports

Gourtay - Le Hingrat Francoise (2012). Chargement des données CTD de la campagne SPRAYALIS dans la base SISMER. IDM/SISMER/JG/12-034.