MIRAI Cruise MR01-K02 Field Campaign
Model Initialization Data
Research on the Subtropical Gyre and the Subpolar Gyre in the North Pacific Ocean was taken place aboard the Mirai Cruise MR01-K02.
The Kuroshio in the western North Pacific is called as the Kuroshio Extension and forms the clear northern boundary of the sub-tropical gyre. The Kuroshio Extension is active and generates cold and warm eddies very frequently. There is a large possibility that these eddies play an important role in the meridional exchange of heat and freshwater across the Kuroshio Extension. But there has been no study to evaluate the role of these eddies. MR01-K02 was planned as one of activities to clarify the physical and dynamical structure of eddies along the Kuroshio Extension. In addition to the physical oceanographic research MR01-K02 was carried out as the joint cruise of variety of adopted subjects, such as the ocean lidar, sediments, and aerosol.
This case study presents data from 14 May 2001 to 28 May 2001 and covers a region from 20N to 50N latitude and from 135E to 155E longitude.
6-hourly NCEP Reanalysis data are available here for certain pressure level, surface, and surface flux variables.
- Air temperature, Geopotential height, and U-wind and V-wind data are available at 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 850, 925, 1000 mb.
- Relative humidity and Specific humidity data are available at 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 850, 925, 1000 mb.
- Vertical velocity data are available at 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 850, 925, 1000 mb.
- Surface pressure, Sea-level pressure, Surface Temperature, Soil Temperature (0-10 cm), Soil Temperature (10-200 cm), Soil moisture (0-10 cm), and Soil Moisture(10-200 cm) data are available at a single level.
- A land/sea map and surface height map are also available.
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