Vessel
MIRAI
Cruise number
MR16-09 Leg1-4
Area
South Pacific, Chilean coast, Southern Ocean, Western North Pacific
Objective
Trans Pacific Project: Ocean Acidification, Marine Biodiversity, Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation, Crustal Evolution ; Ship-borne measurements of aerosols in the marine atmosphere: Investigation of potential influence of marine aerosol particles on the climate ; The monitoring of ocean climate change from surface to deep layer in the Southern Ocean by using Argo-type floats ; Geochemical and microbiological processes throughout water column of the Southern Ocean in the eastern Pacific sector ; Regional distribution of seafloor displacement caused by the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake: What happened in the northern Japan Trench? ; Cumulus-scale air-sea interaction study by shipboard in-situ observations ; Geochemical and microbiological investigation for sea surface to sea bottom along Chile margin ; Aerosol optical characteristics measured by Ship-borne Sky radiometer ; Cessation of active spreading axes at trenches.
Chief scientists
Akihiko Murata , Naomi Harada , Hiroshi Uchida
Operation start
2016-12-26
Operation end
2017-03-28
DOI
10.17596/0002783
DOI URL
Title
Mirai Cruise Report MR16-09
Data name
MR16-09_leg1-4_all
Language
English
Series name
Cruise reports
Total pages
283
Publisher
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology