Mooring Deployment Cruise - W0105B - Final Report

From levine@OCE.ORST.EDU Sun May 20 20:25:51 2001
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:15:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Murray Levine
To: coast@OCE.ORST.EDU, moum@thompson.ocean.washington.edu
Cc: wheeler@thompson.ocean.washington.edu
Subject: Mooring Cruise Report -- Final

The mooring deployment cruise returned to Newport at 0900 local 19 May 2001. Thanks to the hard work of the crew of the Wecoma and the scientific party, all objectives were achieved. The weather also cooperated After the first day the winds were weak (<15 knots) contributing to a comfortable ride. A summary of the tasks completed is given below.

MOORINGS: The moorings were deployed very near the intended locations; the actual mooring locations are given below:

Lat                     Long                    Depth  	Distance from
							planned target
North Shelf Break (NB):
44 deg 59.994' N        124 deg 12.655'W        130 m  	0.6 nm
North Mid Shelf (NM)
45 deg 0.011' N         124 deg 6.995' W    	 81m	0.22 nm
Meteorological Buoy (M)
44 deg 59.757' N        124 deg 6.998' W         79 m   0.32 nm
North Inner Shelf (NI)
45 deg 0.04' N          124 deg 4.102' W       	 50m    0.15 nm

South Shelf Break (SB)
44 deg 12.967' N        124 deg 54.802' W       132 m   0.03 nm
South Mid Shelf (SM)
44 deg 12.983' N        124 deg 28.104' W       99 m    0.02 nm
South Inner Shelf (SI)
44 deg 12.993' N        124 deg 10.346' W       51 m    0.25 nm

CTDs:

Casts were made at the following stations:

CH-1, 2, 3		            		5/16/01 0350 to 0500 UTC
CP-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10,  11, 12	5/17/01 0115 to 0815 UTC
CH-2, 4,  5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10		    5/17/01 2050 to 5/18/01 0430 UTC
TS (Time series: 44 deg 55.5' N;  125 deg 8.2' W)  start 5/18/01 0600 UTC
   One cast per hour until 5/18/01 1800 UTC (skipping 1300, 1400, 1500) 
   Water depth 1260 m.
NH-45, 35, 25				5/19/01 0915 to 1300