Vessel
MIRAI
Cruise number
MR14-02
Area
Western Tropical Pacific
Objective
Tropical Ocean Climate Study ; The reconstruction of the ocean environmental change in the Quaternary period and geomagnetism strength change over the western equatorial Pacific ; Estimation of the primary productivity by the dissolved O2 isotope of the intermediate-to-deep water ; Study on oceanic circulation, heat and fresh water transports, and their changes over the Pacific Ocean, and comprehensive study for physics, chemical and biology process over north-western Pacific, using Argo floats ; Lidar observations of clouds and aerosols ; Atmospheric aerosol and gas observations ; Study on formation process of the Lyra Basin ; Validation of GOSAT products over sea using a ship-borne compact system for measuring atmospheric trace gas column densities ; Aerosol optical characteristics measured by ship-borne sky radiometer ; Study on standardization of ocean geophysics observation data and application to ocean bottom dynamics
Chief scientists
Takuya Hasegawa
Operation start
2014-02-15
Operation end
2014-03-23
DOI
10.17596/0002904
DOI URL
Title
R/V Mirai Cruise Report MR14-02
Data name
MR14-02_all
Language
English
Series name
Cruise reports
Total pages
173
Publisher
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology