ORV SAGAR KANYA


Sagar Kanya

Ship Specifications

Cruise 109 (January 5 - February 2, 1996)

Sagar Kanya Cruise 109 Track
Sagar Kanya Cruise 109 Track

Cruise 120 (December 27, 1996 - January 23, 1997)

Sagar Kanya Cruise 120 Track
Sagar Kanya Cruise 120 Track

Cruise 133 (February 17 - March 31, 1998)

  • All sky images
  • 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)
      • CO2 (air/water), IR absorption, Gupta (NPL), Wet lab (main deck)
      • CO2 (sea water), Chemical, George (NIO), Chemistry Lab
      • Surface CO, IR absorption, Lal (PRL) & Gupta (NPL), Wet lab (main deck)
      • Green House Gases (CH4/NMHC), Grab samplers/GC, Gupta (NPL) & Naqvi (NIO), Fore deck
      • Surface O3, UV absorption, Dickerson (UMD), Zalpuri (NPL) & Lal (PRL), Wet lab (main deck)
      • DMS (aqueous), Stripping, Naqvi (NIO), Fore deck
      • SF6, GC - ECD, Lal (PRL), Wet lab (main deck)
      • Surface SO2, Pulsed florescence, Dickerson (UMD)
      • Column O3, Brewer, (IMD), Front side of B deck
      • Column O3, 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 (C4)
      • 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 (C4)
      • Aerosol Scattering, Nephelometer, Jayaraman (PRL) & Ramanathan (C4)
    • 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 (C4)
      • Hemispheric broadband fluxes, 5-channel narrow-band UV/VIS radiometer (BSI GUV 531), Meywerk & Ramanathan (C4)
      • Hemispheric broadband fluxes, 512-channel narrow-band spectro-radiometer (350 - 1050 nm) (ASD Field Spectroradiometer), Meywerk & Ramanathan (C4)
      • 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 (C4)
      • 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 (C4)
      • Water vapor, Microwave radiometer, Heymsfield & Williams (NCAR) 
    • Oceanic Parameters
      • Ocean Parameters, CTD, Rao (NIO), Main deck
  • Cruise Track
  • Data will be available through CIDS
  • Publications, Posters, Papers,...
Sagar Kanya Cruise 133 Track
Sagar Kanya Cruise 133 Track

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