Vessel
MIRAI
Cruise number
MR11-07 Leg1-2
Area
Tropical Central Indian Ocean
Objective
Observational and modeling analyses of the effects of multi-scale moisture variability on the organization of meso-scale convective systems ; Validation of daily simulation results using a cloud-resolving model over the tropical Indian Ocean ; On-board continuous air-sea flux measurement ; Observation study on ozone and water vapor variability in the tropical tropopause layer ; Distribution and configuration of clouds in various Oceans ; Lidar observations of optical characteristics and vertical distribution of aerosols and clouds ; Maritime aerosol optical properties from measurements of ship-borne sky radiometer ; Tropospheric aerosol and gas observations on a research vessel by MAX-DOAS ; Water sampling for building water isotopologue map over the Ocean ; Study of ocean circulation and heat and freshwater transport and their variability in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and experimental comprehensive study of physical-chemical-biological processes in the western North Pacific by the deployment of Argo floats and using Argo data ; Distribution and ecology of oceanic Halobates inhabiting tropical area of Indian Ocean and their responding system to several environmental factors ; Standardising the marine geophysics data and its application to the ocean floor geodynamics studies
Chief scientists
Kunio Yoneyama , Masaki Katsumata
Operation start
2011-09-23
Operation end
2011-12-02
DOI
10.17596/0003149
DOI URL
Title
R/V Mirai Cruise Report MR11-07
Data name
MR11-07_leg1-2_all
Language
English
Series name
Cruise reports
Total pages
350
Publisher
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology