Metadata

General Information

• Cruise Information
• Institution : NIES/CGER
• Principal Investigator: Dr. Yukihiro Nojiri
• Platform : M/S Skaugran
  Locations for equipments' install
  • Container laboratory on the ship deck
  • Engine room of the ship

Measurement Information

• Water flow system of discrete and continuous measurement
• Measurement system of continuous measurement
• Seawater intake
• Seawater supply line
• Design of equilibrator:
  • Shower type (Inoue and Sugimura, 1992; Koertzinger et al., 1999)
  • Tandem type (Kimoto and Harashima, 1993; Harashima et al., 1997)
• Method of CO₂ measurement: NDIR
  • for shower type equilibrator
  • for tandem type eqilibrator
• Calibration gases
• Calibration of the pressure and temperature
  • Sea surface temperature: XBT
  • Ship bottom temperature: Pt resistance thermometer
  • Equilibrator temperature: Thermosalinograph
• Data corrections: temperature warming up correction
  • XBT available 2-4 time/day
  • ship bottom temperature sensor available every minute
• Data uncertainty of the overall measurements (Murphy et al., 2001)