■Facilities Available to Researchers Research facilities for oceanographic observation Labs (13) Container labs (4) Acoustic navigation instrument (transducer with elevator) Multi narrow-beam sounder Acoustic current meter Sub-bottom profiler Ocean Lidar System Radio navigation instrument CTD water sampling instrument XBT (expendable bathythermograph) XCP (expendable current profiler) XCTD (expendable conductivity temperature depth profiler) 200 liter water sampler 20 ml piston corer (for 10,000 m depth) Proton magnetometer Shipboard gravimeter Shipboard magnetometer Supplementary instruments for oceanographic observations A-frame crane (22 tons) Gallows (11 tons) Survey winches (7) Traction Winches (3) Swell compensators (3) Meteorological Observation Rooms (3) Articulated deck cranes (3 tons × 21 mR) Jib deck cranes (10 tons × 20 mR) Moored buoy handling systems CTD water sampler handling system Ship data control system Upper atmosphere meteorological observation instruments (for radiosonde, etc.) Meteorological Observation System Observation rooms (3) Comprehensive ocean atmosphere observation instruments Atmospheric gas sampler Upper atmosphere meteorological observation instruments (for radiosonde, etc.) Doppler radar Satellite data receiver systems (NOAA, GMS, etc.)