SURTROPAC 11

Name: SURTROPAC 11
Start: 1989-01-04
End: 1989-02-05
Location: Southwest Pacific Ocean (140W)

Type	Oceanographic cruise
Set	This cruise is part of the set SURTROPAC
Ship	Coriolis
Ship owner	Ifremer
Dates	04/01/1989 - 05/02/1989
Chief scientist(s)	HENIN Christian
	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	10.17600/89000111
Objective	Studying the hydrology and dynamics of the circulation system in the western tropical Pacific during the Southern summer Monsoon. Study in of temporal variability of the heat structure of currents in the Equatorial zone. From 22 S to 10 N, along 165 E.

Sea/Ocean

Southwest Pacific Ocean (140W)

(PACIFIQUE SW, MER DE CORAIL)

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
METEOROLOGY
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Code	Label	Quantity	PI
B02	Phytoplankton pigments (eg chloroph Chlorophylle	35 stations	HENIN Christian
B08	Phytoplankton Traits	41 hauls	HENIN Christian
B09	Zooplankton Traits	41 hauls	HENIN Christian
D71	Current profiler (eg ADCP) Profils de courant 0-600 m (1h30) toutes les 2 heures	57 profiles	HENIN Christian
H09	Water bottle stations	35 stations	HENIN Christian
H10	CTD stations CTD 02 Seabird : 0-2000 (39), 0-1200 (1), 0-1000 (5), 0-500 (10)	57 stations	HENIN Christian
H13	Bathythermograph	65 profiles	HENIN Christian
H21	Oxygen	57 stations	HENIN Christian
H22	Phosphate Stations sur 12 niveaux	35 stations	HENIN Christian
H24	Nitrate Stations sur 12 niveaux	35 stations	HENIN Christian
H25	Nitrite Stations sur 12 niveaux	35 stations	HENIN Christian
H71	Surface measurements underway (T,S)	65	HENIN Christian
M06	Routine standard measurements Toutes les 3 heures	-	HENIN Christian

Summary of measurements

-Releasing 8 TRISTARS drifting buoys.
-41 WP-2 plankton net hauls (0-500 m).
-33 m plankton net hauls.
-Replacing the electronics of ATLAS buoys (5 degrees North and 2 degrees North).
-Deployment of two ATLAS buoys (2 degrees South and 5 degrees South).
-65 XBT shots.
-Surface samples (T and S) taken every 30 nautical miles, from 10 degrees North to 22 degrees South.
-Routine meteorology measurements every 3 hours.
-57 current profiles (0- 600 m).
-57 CTD stations.

Location map

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

Delcroix T, Picaut J (1998). Zonal displacement of the western equatorial Pacific "fresh pool". Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans, 103(C1), 1087-1098. https://doi.org/10.1029/97JC01912

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/