A Moored array along the southern boundary of the Brazil Basin for the Deep Basin Experiment
Subtitle: report on a joint experiment 1991-1992
By: by Susan Tarbell ... [etc.].
Contributors: Tarbell, Susan.; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Series: WHOI -- 94-07.; WHOI (Series) -- 94-07.
Publisher: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Institut für Meereskunde and der Universität Kiel
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Woods Hole, Mass; Kiel, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Deep-sea moorings.; Ocean currents -- Brazil Basin.; Ocean temperature -- Brazil Basin.; Ocean-atmosphere interaction.
Description: The Deep Basin Experiment (DBE) is an international effort and a part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment with the principal objective of improving our knowledge of the subthermocline circulation. The DBE fieldwork is focussed on the Brazil Basin and this report is concerned with a moored array situated along its southern boundary which was installed in early 1991 to measure the inflow and outflow to the Basin and to investigate the Brazil Current near 30S. This moored array was a joint undertaking by the Institut fr Meereskunde of the University of Kiel and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Moorings were deployed on Meteor Cruise 15, leg 1 and retrieved on Meteor cruise 22, legs 3 and 4. A total of 57 conventional current meters and two Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers were set on 13 moorings with some concentration within the Brazil Current and the Vema Channel. CTDs were taken at each mooring site as well as in between. Some of the recovered instruments were reset in the Hunter Channel, a suspected additional connection between the Argentine Basin and the Brazil Basin. A later report will summarize this data after it is recovered in May 1994.
Notes: "May 1994."

"Funding was provided by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Si 111/38-1, Si 111/39-1) the Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie (03F0535A, 03F0050D) and the National Science Foundation under Grant OCE-9004396."

"IfM-Kiel 243."

"Technical report."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-33)

Also issued online.