SURTROPAC 08

Name: SURTROPAC 08
Start: 1987-07-01
End: 1987-07-28
Location: Pacific Ocean

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set SURTROPAC
Ship	Coriolis
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	01/07/1987 - 28/07/1987
Chief scientist(s)	DELCROIX Thierry
	IRD ANTENNE DE TOULOUSE LEGOS/OMP Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees 14, av. Edouard Belin 31400 TOULOUSE
DOI	10.17600/87002311
Objective	Hydrological and current-measurement study of the western equatorial Pacific during the Southern summer. SURTROPAC 8 supplements the semi-annual (January and July) cruises made since January 1984.

Sea/Ocean

Pacific Ocean

(PACIFIQUE INTERTROPICAL OUEST)

Ports

Port of departure : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Port of return : Noumea (New Caledonia)

Project

SURTROPAC

Scientific Authority

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/

Participating bodie(s)

ORSTOM

Discipline(s)

CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
METEOROLOGY
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B02	Phytoplankton pigments (eg chloroph	37 stations	DELCROIX Thierry
B09	Zooplankton Traits de filets	34 hauls	DELCROIX Thierry
D71	Current profiler (eg ADCP)	35 stations	DELCROIX Thierry
H09	Water bottle stations	37 stations	DELCROIX Thierry
H10	CTD stations	35 stations	DELCROIX Thierry
H13	Bathythermograph	105 profiles	DELCROIX Thierry
H21	Oxygen	37 stations	DELCROIX Thierry
H22	Phosphate	37 stations	DELCROIX Thierry
H24	Nitrate	37 stations	DELCROIX Thierry
M06	Routine standard measurements toutes les 3 heures	-	DELCROIX Thierry

Summary of measurements

-38 hydrological stations with Seabird CTD02 from the surface to 2,000 m.
-At each station: 12 samples taken with rosette to analyse salinity, dissolved oxygen and nutrients.
-34 vertical plankton net hauls (0 to 500 m).
-38 current profiles (0 to 600 m) using a TAREQ AANDERAA profiler mounted on drifting buoy.
-Routine meteorological measurements and surface samples every 3 hours.
-105 XBT shots.

Location map

Data managed by SISMER

Bibliography

Publications

Chen Jian, Zhang Ren, Wang Huizan, An Yuzhu, Peng Peng, Zhang Weitao (2012). Isolation of sea surface salinity maps on various timescales in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Journal Of Oceanography, 68(5), 687-701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-012-0126-8

Gorman Meaghan K., Quinn Terrence M., Taylor Frederick W., Partin Judson W., Cabioch Guy, Austin James A., Jr., Pelletier Bernard, Ballu Valerie, Maes Christophe, Saustrup Steffen (2012). A coral-based reconstruction of sea surface salinity at Sabine Bank, Vanuatu from 1842 to 2007 CE. Paleoceanography, 27(PA3226), 1-13. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1029/2012PA002302 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00129/24064/

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/