ORV SAGAR KANYA
Ship Specifications
Cruise 109 (January 5 - February 2, 1996)
Instrument List:
BSI_SPECTRAL_PYRANOMETER
FILTERED_EPPLEY_TOTAL_SOLAR_PYRANOMETER
GPS
HANDHELD_SUNPHOTOMETER
HANDHELD_SUNPHOTOMETER_ANALYSIS
HIGH_VOLUME_BULK_AEROSOL_FILTER_SAMPLER
MET_PACKAGE
MULTI_WAVELENGTH_RADIOMETER
PYRHELIOMETER
QCM_CASCADE_IMPACTOR
SURFACE_CO_CH4_ANALYSER
SURFACE_OZONE_SAMPLER
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Aerosol and pollutant transport over the tropical Indian Ocean during the 1996 northeast monsoon and the impact on radiative forcing
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Cruise 120 (December 27, 1996 - January 23, 1997)
Instrument List:
CLASS_SONDES
GPS
GUV_RADIOMETER
HANDHELD_SUNPHOTOMETER
PYRANOMETER
PYRHELIOMETER
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Cruise 133 (February 17 - March 31, 1998)
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listed by date and time.
Information Listed by Participants, Instruments and Experiments
Instrument list:
Measurement, Instrument, Investigator (Institution), Location on Ship
Chemistry & Trace Gases
Surface NOx, Chemiluminence, Gupta (NPL) & Lal (PRL), Wet lab (main deck)
CO
2
(air/water), IR absorption, Gupta (NPL), Wet lab (main deck)
CO
2
(sea water), Chemical, George (NIO), Chemistry Lab
Surface CO, IR absorption, Lal (PRL) & Gupta (NPL), Wet lab (main deck)
Green House Gases (CH
4
/NMHC), Grab samplers/GC, Gupta (NPL) & Naqvi (NIO), Fore deck
Surface O
3
, UV absorption, Dickerson (UMD), Zalpuri (NPL) & Lal (PRL), Wet lab (main deck)
DMS (aqueous), Stripping, Naqvi (NIO), Fore deck
SF
6
, GC - ECD, Lal (PRL), Wet lab (main deck)
Surface SO
2
, Pulsed florescence, Dickerson (UMD)
Column O
3
, Brewer, (IMD), Front side of B deck
Column O
3
, Ozone Sondes, Kley (KFA)
Precipitation chemistry, Rain water collectors, Gupta (NPL) & Devara (IITM), Front side of B deck and Fore deck
Trace Gases, Trace Gas Sampling Canisters, Rowland & Blake (UC Irvine)
Precipitation chemistry, W.O. Collector - major and trace components, Granat (MISU), Front side of B deck
Aerosols
Aerosols Comp, High volume sampler, Gupta (NPL) & Devera (IITM), Front side of B deck
Aerosols Comp, High volume air sampler, M. Thiemens (UC San Diego)
Aerosol mass conc. and size distribution, QCM, Jayaraman (PRL), Wet lab (main deck)
Aerosols optical depth at 5 wavelengths, Hand-held photometer, Jayaraman (PRL), Front side of B deck
Aerosols optical depth at 5 wavelengths, Hand-held radiometer (MWR), Krishnamoorthy (SPL), Front side of B deck
Aerosol optical depth, SABL, Heymsfield (NCAR)
Aerosol optical depth, Microtops Photometer w/GPS, Meywerk & Ramanathan (C
4
)
Marine aerosols, Aitkin Nuclei Counter, Devara (IITM), Front side of B deck
Marine aerosols, CCN spectrometer, Shaw (U Alaska)
Aerosols & gaseous optical depths, Multi-channel solar radiometer, Devara (IITM) & Krishnamoorthy (SPL), Front side of B deck
Vertical profile of aerosols, Twilight photometer, Devara (IITM), Front side of B deck
Electrical conductivity and electric field, Conductivity instrument - A.C. Field Mill, Kamra (IITM), Front side of B deck
Aerosol size distribution, Electrical aerosol analyzer, Kamra (IITM), Front side of B deck
Aerosol chemistry, 5-stage Berner Impactor, Granat (MISU), Front side of B deck
Aerosol Mass and chemical composition, Aerosol Impactor, J. Prospero (U of Miami)
Aerosol Absorption Coefficient, PSAP Instruments, Jayaraman (PRL) & Ramanathan (C
4
)
Aerosol Scattering, Nephelometer, Jayaraman (PRL) & Ramanathan (C
4
)
Radiation
Direct solar flux measurements at two spectral bands, Pyheliometer & Pyranometer, Jayaraman (PRL), Front side of B deck
Total incoming & outgoing radiation, Radiometer sonde, (IMD), Back side of A deck
Hemispheric broadband fluxes, PSP pyranometers (295 - 3700 nm) (clear and 780 filtered), Meywerk & Ramanathan (C
4
)
Hemispheric broadband fluxes, 5-channel narrow-band UV/VIS radiometer (BSI GUV 531), Meywerk & Ramanathan (C
4
)
Hemispheric broadband fluxes, 512-channel narrow-band spectro-radiometer (350 - 1050 nm) (ASD Field Spectroradiometer), Meywerk & Ramanathan (C
4
)
UV actinic flux, UV radiometers, Kley (KFA)
Radiosondes, ISS System, Heymsfield & Williams (NCAR)
Meteorological Parameters
Wind velocity and direction, humidity and temperature, Propeller anemometer Pt., resistance temp, Humicap humidity sensor, Sen Gupta (SPL), Prabhu (IISc) & Raman (NCSU), Boom deployed from fore deck
Wind velocity and direction, humidity and temperature, Weather Station Instruments, Meywerk (C
4
)
Meteorology observations & ozone profile, Radio & ozone sonde, (IMD), Back side of A deck
Boundary layer, SODAR, Raman (NCSU)
Clouds, Wide-angle video camera (Digital all-sky camera), Meywerk (C
4
)
Water vapor, Microwave radiometer, Heymsfield & Williams (NCAR)
Oceanic Parameters
Ocean Parameters, CTD, Rao (NIO), Main deck
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