VT 74 / CORIOLIS

Name: VT 74 / CORIOLIS
Start: 2004-07-28
End: 2004-09-12
Location: Atlantic Ocean

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Ship	Marion Dufresne
Ship owner	TAAF
Dates	28/07/2004 - 12/09/2004
Chief scientist(s)	REVERDIN Gilles
	LABORATOIRE D'OCÉANOGRAPHIE ET DU CLIMAT : EXPÉRIMENTATIONS ET APPROCHES NUMÉRIQUES - UMR 7159 Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Boîte 100 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris +33 (1) 44 27 32 48 https://www.locean.ipsl.fr/
DOI	10.17600/4200230
Objective	Taking advantage of a transit to deploy 15 profiling PROVOR floats. XBT section and TSG and ADCP acquisition. This falls under the CORIOLIS project.

Sea/Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Ports

Port of departure : Ferrol (Spain)

Port of return : Le Port (Réunion)

Limits

North	South	West	East
44.0	-35.0	-20.0	60.0

Project

CORIOLIS ARGO-FRANCE

Scientific Authority

LABORATOIRE D'OCÉANOGRAPHIE ET DU CLIMAT : EXPÉRIMENTATIONS ET APPROCHES NUMÉRIQUES - UMR 7159

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

Boîte 100

75005 Paris

+33 (1) 44 27 32 48

https://www.locean.ipsl.fr/

Participating bodie(s)

LODYC

Discipline(s)

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
D05	Surface drifters/drifting buoys 15 flotteurs PROVOR	-	REVERDIN Gilles
D71	Current profiler (eg ADCP) VM-ADCP (mais pb)	-	REVERDIN Gilles
H13	Bathythermograph 45 XBTs T5 et T7	-	REVERDIN Gilles
H71	Surface measurements underway (T,S) TSG	-	REVERDIN Gilles

Summary of measurements

-Launching of 15 PROVOR floats
-54 XBT T5 or T7 probes released.
-TSG acquisition and samples taken for later correction of TSG salinities.

Location map

Joint document(s)

ADCP format for Marion Dufresne ADCP

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Kolodziejczyk N., Bourles Bernard, Marin Frederic, Grelet Jacques, Chuchla R. (2009). Seasonal variability of the Equatorial Undercurrent at 10 degrees W as inferred from recent in situ observations. Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans, 114(C06014), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JC004976