AMANDES III

Type Oceanographic cruise
Set This cruise is part of the set AMANDES
Ship Antea
Ship owner IRD
Dates 06/04/2008 - 18/04/2008
Chief scientist(s) JEANDEL Catherine ORCID

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 10.17600/8110010
Objective The first mission scheduled in the framework of the ANR's AMANDES project aimed to retrieve 3 moorings, deploy 4 to take physical oceanography measurements on the continental shelf at the mouth of the Amazon, as well as water samples in rosettes to be analyzed on board or later in the laboratory for geochemical and isotopic tracers to characterize the influence of the river's waters on the biogeochemistry of the open Atlantic Ocean This falls under the ANR BLANCHE, AMANDES project.

Data managed by SISMER

Moorings

Bibliography

Publications

Léon Morgane, Beek Pieter, Scholten Jan, Moore Willard S., Souhaut Marc, de Oliveira Joselene, Jeandel Catherine, Seyler Patrick, Jouanno Julien (2022). Use of 223 Ra and 224 Ra as chronometers to estimate the residence time of Amazon waters on the Brazilian continental shelf. Limnology And Oceanography, 67(4), 753-767. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12010 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00753/86479/