PHYGAS IROISE 75-06

Name: PHYGAS IROISE 75-06
Start: 1975-09-13
End: 1975-09-30
Location: Celtic Sea

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set PHYGAS : PHYSIQUE GASCOGNE
Ship	Cryos
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	13/09/1975 - 30/09/1975
Chief scientist(s)	MADELAIN François
	IFREMER SIEGE 1625 route de Sainte-Anne CS 10070 29280 PLOUZANE +33(0)2 98 22 40 40 https://www.ifremer.fr/fr
DOI	10.17600/75004111
Objective	In addition to the recognition and hydrological study of a frontal area, the aim of this cruise was to experiment with drifting floats designed to measure surface currents.

Sea/Ocean

Celtic Sea

(Iroise sea)

Ports

Port of departure : Brest (France)

Port of return : Brest (France)

Scientific Authority

OPS / LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES OCEANS (LPO)

IFREMER Centre de Bretagne

ZI Pointe du diable

29280 PLOUZANE

+33 (0)2 98.22.42.76

Participating bodie(s)

CENTRE OCEANOLOGIQUE DE BRETAGNE BREST

Discipline(s)

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
D05	Surface drifters/drifting buoys	4 deployments	MADELAIN François
D90	Other physical oceanographic meas. Mesures isolees de salinite en surface	200 measurements	MADELAIN François
H10	CTD stations	94 stations	MADELAIN François
H21	Oxygen	94 stations	MADELAIN François
H71	Surface measurements underway (T,S) temperature	-	MADELAIN François
M06	Routine standard measurements	78 measurements	MADELAIN François

Summary of measurements

-94 stations to the CTD probe for oxygen.
-Surface temperature measurements.
-Surface samplings.
-Current meters using drifting floats.

Positionning system

Geodetic system : VALEUR INDEFINIE

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