Metadata

General Information

• Cruise Information
• Principal Investigator: Dr. Yukihiro NOJIRI
• Institution: NIES / CGER

Measurement Information

• CO₂ Measurement System: see Clickable Map (installed locations and spec of equipments can be seen)
• Platform: M/S Alligator Hope
• Equilibrator:Tandem type (Kimoto and Harashima, 1993; Harashima et al., 1997)
• Method of CO₂ measurement: NDIR
• Calibration: once in 12 hrs every day using standard gases
• Calibration of the pressure and temperature
  • –Ship bottom temperature: Pt resistance thermometer
  • –Equilibrator temperature: Thermosalinometer
• Data corrections: temperature warming up correction
  
  • –Warming up effect to pCO₂ is corrected by ship bottom temperature, available every 10 seconds.