MOPRE IV

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship Capricorne
Ship owner Ifremer
Dates 04/01/1979 - 11/01/1979
Chief scientist(s) RUAL Pierre

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/

DOI 10.17600/79000511
Objective Laying of a mooring at 5,000m depth at the Equator. The MOPRE missions represent the "mooring" operations of the CIPREA programme. The purpose of moorings at the Equator is to study the variability of temperature and currents.