Vessel
MIRAI
Cruise number
MR14-06 Leg1
Area
The Pacific Ocean in and around the Ontong Java Plateau
Objective
Study of structure and formation process of the Ontong Java Plateau ; Aerosol optical characteristics measured by Ship-borne Sky radiometer ; Applied research of MIRAI brand-new shipboard weather radar: Validation and utilization of dual-polarization information for global deployment ; Global distribution of drop size distribution of precipitating particles over pure-oceanic background ; Standardisation of marine geophysical data and its application to geodynamics studies ; The study of the ocean circulation and the transport of heat and fresh water in the Pacific Ocean using by Argo floats ; Advanced continuous measurements of aerosols in the marine atmosphere: Elucidation of the roles in the Earth system ; Search for the basement rocks of Ontong Java Plateau ; Shipboard CO2 observations over the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean for a simple estimation of the carbon flux between the ocean and the atmosphere from GOSAT data
Chief scientists
Daisuke Suetsugu
Operation start
2014-11-04
Operation end
2014-12-17
DOI
10.17596/0002908
DOI URL
Title
MIRAI MR14-06 Leg1 Cruise Report
Data name
MR14-06_leg1_all
Language
English
Series name
Cruise reports
Total pages
85
Publisher
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology