FICARAM-15 Cruise Report 20th March – 22nd May 2013 on board BIO Hespérides by the Group FICARAM

54 páginas, 19 figuras, 3 anexosThe FICARAM-15 is the fifteenth repetition of a section conducted in 1994. This section is part of the international program GOSHIP (http://www.go-ship.org/CruisePlans.html) to develop a globally coordinated network of sustained hydrographic sections as part of the global ocean/climate observing system. The objective of the FICARAM-15 cruise is to investigate the temporal evolution of the anthropogenic carbon and evaluate the CO2 absorption capacity of the South Atlantic region, the Equatorial zone, and the subtropical region of Azores-Gibraltar in the North Atlantic. This cruise is supported by the CATARINA project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CTM2010-17141) and is part of the European Union FP7 project CARBOCHANGE (http://carbochange.b.uib.no/). The objective of FICARAM-15 cruise is framed in the CATARINA project conducted by the tasks I.2.1 (air-sea CO2 exchange) I.3 (ventilation of water masses), I.4.1 (zonal variability of N2O and CH4), I.4.2 (anthropogenic carbon storage), I.4.4 (saturation horizon of calcium carbonate along the section) and I.5.4 (evolution of the acidification rates). Another component of the FICARAM-15 cruise aims to examine the biological and biogeochemical mechanisms that hinder total dissolved organic carbon (DOC) remineralisation in marine systems, taking a multidisciplinary perspective and applying many different approaches. This is the global objective of the Spanish project DOREMI (CTM2012-34294) that joins this FICARAM-15 cruise.During the FICARAM cruise the physical oceanography group was responsible for collecting the following data sets: CTD and XBT data; vessel-mounted ADCP and lowered ADCP; continuous thermosalinograph. Physical oceanographers participated in the cruise financed through Project “Tipping Corners in the Meridional Overturning Circulation” (TIC-MOC), CTM2011-28867. The FICARAM-15 cruise was organized in two phases with a common sampling. LEG 1: From Punta Arenas (Chile) to Recife (Brazil): 62 stations. Chief Scientist: Aida F. Ríos, PI of CATARINA project LEG 2: From Recife (Brazil) to Cartagena (Spain): 46 stations Chief Scientist: Celia Marrasé, PI of DOREMI project This report contains the sampling of all the variables at each station along the FICARAM section, as well as the analysis of the biogeochemical variables and the preliminary results. The principal investigator of the DOREMI project produced another report with the common sampling section, showing the analysis and results of the experiments on dissolved organic matter carried out on board.This cruise is supported by the CATARINA project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CTM2010-17141) and is part of the European Union FP7 project CARBOCHANGE (http://carbochange.b.uib.no/)Peer reviewe

UGBO. Informe de la campaña MATER III

MAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response 3 (MATER-3) del Mediterranean Targeted Project II (MTP II), inicialmente denominada ALGERS'98.-- Jefe de campañana Jordi Font.-- Códigos de campaña HE049 y MTP II MATER/HESP-05-98 con inicio el 18 de mayo de 1998 en Cartagena y final el 27 de mayo de 1998 en Cartagena.-- 3 pagesPeer Reviewe

Mid-Ocean Channels and Fracture Zones: Mutual Interaction and recent Evolution of the Equatorial and Vidal Channels (Equatorial Atlantic)

Baraza, Jesús... et al.-- 7 pages, 3 figures[EN] The Vidal´97 Cruise took place during the way of the R/V BIO Hesperides to the Antarctic, in an area of the Equatorial Atlantic, East of the Lesser Antilels between 11º N - 18º N latitude and 49º W - 54º W longitude (Fig. 1). [...][ES] El plan de campaña original se elaboró teniendo en cuenta el tiempo disponible y los tramos de navegación existentes entre los puertos de salida y desembarque. A efectos de obtener una distribución de tiempos más razonables y evitar tramos de navegación excesivamente largos, se subdividió la zona de estudio en cuatro cajas o "boxes" adyacentes de N a S que fueron estudiadas correlativamente. [...]Peer reviewe