Accession Number:

AD0847324

Title:

Oceanographic Cruise Summary, Ross Sea, Antarctic, February 1968

Descriptive Note:

Informal rept.

Corporate Author:

NAVAL OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE NSTL STATION MS

Personal Author(s):

• Car, Martial
• Codispoti, Louis A.

Report Date:

1968-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

28.0

Abstract:

During February 1968, a two-phase operation was conducted in Antarctica by NAVOCEANO personnel. The first phase was a study of the currents in the McMurdo Sound region, and the second phase consisted of occupying the annual ice potential stations in the Ross Sea in support of NAVOCEANOs Antarctic Ice Prediction Program. Current measurements were made by tracking drogues and by mooring self-contained current meter arrays. Preliminary analysis of the drogue data indicates that currents in McMurdo Sound conform generally with the scheme outlined in H.O. Pub. 27 except for a southwest instead of a northwest drift into New Harbor. The data also indicate that the Cape Bird current may have been leaving the coast farther south than described.

Descriptors:

• *OCEANOGRAPHY
• DATA PROCESSING
• TEMPERATURE
• OCEAN CURRENTS
• INSTRUMENTATION
• PARACHUTES
• SALINITY
• OCEANOGRAPHIC SHIPS
• OCEAN BOTTOM SAMPLING
• HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING
• SEA ICE
• ANTARCTIC REGIONS
• MOORING

Subject Categories:

• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE