AMT6
AMT6 left Cape Town, South Africa on 14 May 1998 and
arrived in Grimsby on 15 June 1998. The ship track from Cape
Town to the equator followed the coast of South Africa, Namibia and
Angola to study the Benguela upwelling. From the coast of southern
Angola, the track passed through the Gulf of Guinea to join the
standard AMT track at about 10 degrees N. The principal scientists
was Jim Aiken from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
The cruise focused on functional relationships of bio-optical
properties and phytoplankton productivity in upwelling and highly
productive ecosystems.
Image courtesy of
NEODAAS.