SURTROPAC 03

Name: SURTROPAC 03
Start: 1985-01-09
End: 1985-02-02
Location: Pacific Ocean

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set SURTROPAC
Ship	Coriolis
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	09/01/1985 - 02/02/1985
Chief scientist(s)	REBERT Jean-Paul
	IRD SIEGE Le Sextant 44 bd de Dunkerque CS 90009 13572 MARSEILLE CEDEX 02 33 (0)4 91 99 92 00 accueilmarseille@ird.fr https://www.ird.fr/
DOI	10.17600/85002111
Objective	Study of the interannual variability of hydrological circulation conditions and productivity in the southwest Pacific Ocean between 10N and 20S.

Sea/Ocean

Pacific Ocean

(PACIFIQUE EQUATORIAL OUEST)

Ports

Port of departure : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Port of return : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Project

SURTROPAC

Scientific Authority

IRD CENTRE DE BRETAGNE

IFREMER Centre de Bretagne

ZI Pointe du diable

29280 PLOUZANE

+33 (0)2 98.22.45.01

http://www.brest.ird.fr/

Participating bodie(s)

ORSTOM CENTRE DE NOUMEA

Discipline(s)

METEOROLOGY
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B02	Phytoplankton pigments (eg chloroph	450 samples	REBERT Jean-Paul
B09	Zooplankton	35	REBERT Jean-Paul
D71	Current profiler (eg ADCP) profils de courant 0-600 metres	35 profiles	REBERT Jean-Paul
H09	Water bottle stations	35 stations	REBERT Jean-Paul
H10	CTD stations	35 stations	REBERT Jean-Paul
H13	Bathythermograph	35 profiles	REBERT Jean-Paul
H22	Phosphate	35 stations	REBERT Jean-Paul
H24	Nitrate	35 stations	REBERT Jean-Paul

Summary of measurements

-HYDROLOGY: 35 CTD stations carried out at all degrees of latitude between 10N and 20S along the 166 E meridian with ateach station, T-S profile between 0 and 1,000 meters; 12 rosette samples with analysis of P04, NO2, NO3, chlorophyll.; 30 XBT thermal profiles 0-450 meters on the way back.
-DYNAMIC: 35 current profiles 0-600 meters.
-BIOLOGY: 35 plankton double vertical lines 0-400 meters / 0-150 meters; dry weight analysis and determination.

Positionning system

Geodetic system : VALEUR INDEFINIE

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Eldin Gerard, Delcroix Thierry, Rodier Martine (2004). The frontal area at the eastern edge of the western equatorial Pacific warm pool in April 2001. Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans, 109(C07006), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2003JC002088

Ioualalen Mansour, Lukas Roger, Eldin Gerard, Gouriou Yves (2003). Some aspects of the southern Pacific subtropical overturning cell (STC) during WESPALIS-1 cruise in Oct./Nov 1999. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(7), 53.1-53.4. https://doi.org/10.1029/2002GL016683

Le Borgne Robert, Barber Rt, Delcroix Thierry, Inoue Hy, Mackey Dj, Rodier M (2002). Pacific warm pool and divergence: temporal and zonal variations on the equator and their effects on the biological pump. Deep-sea Research Part Ii-topical Studies In Oceanography, 49(13-14), 2471-2512. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00045-0

Gouriou Yves, Toole J (1993). Mean circulation of the upper layers of the western equatorial Pacific Ocean. Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans, 98(C12), 22495-22520. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1029/93JC02513 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00192/30346/