Cruises | Number of profiles | Periods | Collecting institutions | Instruments | Spatial coverage |
ROPME 1992 | ≈300 | January-February (leg 1) May-June (leg 6) | Muscat-Jubail Kuwait-Abu Dhabi | CTD | Persian Gulf, Sea of Oman and a part of Arabian Sea |
Arabesque (210-212) 1994 | 400 | August-September (210) October-November (212) | British Oceanographic Data Centre-United Kingdom | CTD | Northwest Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman |
INCO2 1995 | ≈300 | August-September | Iranian National Center for Oceanography | CTD | Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman |
GTSPP 1996 | 45 | March-April | USA | CTD | Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman |