Cruise report-Oceanus 218, March 20-April 9, 1990
Subtitle: Warm Ring Inertial Critical Layer Experiment (WRINCLE)
By: by Raymond W. Schmitt and Ellyn T. Montgomery.
Contributors: Montgomery, Ellyn T.
Series: WHOI -- 91-33.; WHOI (Series) -- 91-33.
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Woods Hole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Chemical oceanography -- Atlantic Ocean.; Ocean currents -- Atlantic Ocean.; Gulf Stream.
Other titles: Warm Ring Inertial Critical Layer Experiment.
Description: R/V Oceanus Cruise 218 (OC218) departed Woods Hole March 20,1990 for 20 days of work in a Gulf Stream Warm Core Ring. The scientific objective of the Warm Ring Inertial Critical Layer Experiment (WRINCLE) was to study the phenomenon of inertial-internal wave trapping in anticyclonic rings and the associate mixing. High Resolution Profiler (HRP) casts provided fine- and microstructure data and the Richardson Number float and eXpendable Current Profiler (XCP) surveys provided velocity and density finestructure measurements. During the time R/V Oceanus was in and around the ring, 78 HRP drops to 1000 m were completed, and data from 55 XCPs, 26 Conductivity Temperature and Depth Profiler (CTD) casts, and 59 expendable Bathythermograph (XBTs) were logged. The free-drifting Richardson Number float (RiNo) acquired data for eleven days in ring center. This report documents the work performed at sea, and summarizes some of the data collected.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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