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01 Oct. 2011: Mirai

CINDY2011/DYNAMO Intensive Observation Period has been started from today, while Mirai occupied SE site and had already started stationary observation since Sept 30.

During on-station, the following will be routinely conducted every 3 hours; radiosonde launch, CTD cast down to 500m, microstructure profiler cast down to 300m, atmospheric turbulent flux measurement against upwind. In addition, continuous observations such as C-band scanning Doppler radar, vertical-pointing cloud radar, lidar, skin-SST measurement by radiometer and floating thermistor, will be carried out.

Today the easterlies prevailed entire troposphere. Mirai was surrounded by thick cloud band developed over zonal direction.

Photo was taken when we launched radiosonde under the rainy condition at 1200 UTC.

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By Kunio