Short Cruise Report. RV Meteor Cruise M84/3. 5 April - 28 April 2011 - Istanbul (Turkey) – Vigo (Spain)

Abstract

All the goals of the cruise were met. We occupied 61 CTD stations in the Mediterranean Sea, including stations in all major sub-basins, and in the Mediterranean Outflow in the Gulf of Cadiz. On 47 of these stations samples were measured for the core parameters of repeat hydrography, and on several additional stations were samples taken for on-shore measurements of carbon isotopes (15 stations), helium isotopes (25 stations) and tritium (15 stations). Seven of the 61 CTD stations were “second casts” on the same position for determination of Barium-isotopes