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