R/V Melville Magellan Leg 4

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This was the second leg of the final cruise for KESS, conducted aboard R/V Melville. The cruise entailed 35 working days at sea, June 1 - July 5, 2006, departing from and returning to Yokohama, Japan. The main objectives were as follows:

1. recover an array of moored CPIES that had been deployed in the Kuroshio Extension in Summer 2004, on a grid spanning from the southern recirculation region to the mixed water regime with site locations coordinated with Jason satellite altimeter groundtracks;
2. collect deep CTD profiles at each CPIES site for calibration purposes;
3. conduct a closely-resolved feature survey of a Kuroshio meander / ring using CTDs to 1500 m and the deep-reaching (700 - 900+ m) Doppler current profiling capabilities of R/V Revelle.
4. collect intensive atmospheric profiles of temperature, humidity, wind velocity versus pressure across the Kuroshio Extension using xx weather balloons with radiosondes
5. launch five NOAA surface drifters

PDF of the Draft Cruise Report

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