Fram Strait with RV Lance : 28.8.2005 - 17.9.2005 ; Cruise Report

The purpose of the cruise was to recover and redeploy the NPI mooring array in the western Fram Strait, and to perform the annual CTD sections. The moorings and CTD sections are part of the ASOF programme, presently funded by NPI and the EU project ASOF-N. In addition the NPI sea ice group performed sea ice work during the first cruise leg, mostly focusing on ice thickness measurements. A NABOS mooring should be recovered and redeployed north-east of Svalbard in collaboration with IARC Fairbanks. On the way back to Tromso three French sound source moorings should be recovered. The cruise is scheduled to starts in Longyearbyen on Sunday 28/8, and end in Tromso Saturday 17/9, a total of 21 days at sea.