JAMSTEC Research Vessel Mirai (MIRAI)
Instrument Categories: Radiometric, Cloud Properties, Ocean Observations, Surface Meteorology, Atmospheric Profiling
IOPs Where the Instrument was Used
Nauru99 Campaign
Tropical Western Pacific, June 16 - July 15, 1999
Primary Measurements Taken
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers for the list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- Precipitation
- Optical depth
- Cloud droplet
- Surface stress
- Cloud top height
- CO2 concentration
- Horizontal wind
- Cloud fraction
- Radar Doppler
- Cloud base height
- Sea surface temperature
- Atmospheric pressure
- Latent heat flux
- Sensible heat flux
- Atmospheric moisture
- Cloud liquid water
- Precipitable water
- Atmospheric temperature
- Radar reflectivity
- Surface skin temperature
- Longwave spectral radiance
- Trace gas concentration
- Planetary boundary layer height
- Backscatter depolarization ratio
- Longwave spectral brightness temperature
- Longwave broadband upwelling irradiance
- Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total upwelling irradiance
- Shortwave spectral total downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband direct downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband diffuse downwelling irradiance