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MARITIME AEROSOL NETWORK (MAN)

The Maritime Aerosol Network (MAN) component of AERONET provides ship-borne aerosol optical depth measurements from the Microtops II sun photometers. These data provide an alternative to observations from islands as well as establish validation points for satellite and aerosol transport models. Since 2004, these instruments have been deployed periodically on ships of opportunity and research vessels to monitor aerosol properties over the World Oceans.

Solar Light Microtops Sun Photometer and Garmin GPS

Microtops instruments currently in the network have five channels but they may have one of two configurations: 340, 440, 675, 870, 936nm or 440, 500, 675, 870, and 936nm. In addition, the instrument has built-in temperature and pressure sensors as well as the ability to log accurate time and geographical position using a GPS. The Microtops instruments are calibrated at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) calibration facility via a transfer calibration procedure between the Microtops and the master Cimel sun photometer at GSFC, which has a calibration traceable to a Langley calibration of a Cimel sun photometer on Mauna Loa, Hawaii. In general, the estimated uncertainty of the aerosol optical depth in each channel does not exceed plus or minus 0.02, which is slightly higher than the uncertainty of AERONET field (not master) instruments.

Additional information on data processing and quality may be found by choosing the "Data" link in the left column.

MAN Publication Reference:

Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D. M. Giles, C. R. McClain, T. F. Eck, S. M. Sakerin, A. Macke, P. Croot, G. Zibordi, P. K. Quinn, J. Sciare, S. Kinne, M. Harvey, T. J. Smyth, S. Piketh, T. Zielinski, A. Proshutinsky, J. I. Goes, N. B. Nelson, P. Larouche, V. F. Radionov, P. Goloub, K. Krishna Moorthy, R. Matarrese, E. J. Robertson, and F. Jourdin (2009),
Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network,
J. Geophys. Res., 114, D06204, doi:10.1029/2008JD011257.

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CRUISES

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The table below provides information for past, ongoing and planned cruises. The Ship column provides links to the information and data for each cruise. The Region column provides a KML file to view the cruise in Google Earth.

Year	Ship	Region	Status
2004	RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov	Atlantic Ocean Transect, Southern Ocean	Completed
2005-2006	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean Transect, Antarctica	Completed
2006-2007	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean Transect, Antarctica	Completed
2007	Ecklonia	Atlantic Ocean near South African Coast	Completed
2007	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean Transect	Completed
2007	RV Urania	Mediterranean Sea	Completed
2007	Trans Future 5	Pacific Ocean Transect	Completed
2007	RV Oceania	Baltic, Norwegian, Greenland Seas	Completed
2007	RV Aranda	Gulf of Bothnia	Completed
2007	CCGS Louis St. Laurent	Beaufort Sea	Completed
2007	Roger Revelle	Arabian Sea	Completed
2007	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2007	Roger Revelle	Arabian Sea	Completed
2007	University of Bari	Adriatic Sea	Completed
2007	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean Transect	Completed
2007	RRS Discovery	Canary-Cape Verde	Completed
2007	RV Marion-Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2007-2008	NOAA Ronald H. Brown	Pacific Ocean Transect	Completed
2007-2008	MV SA Agulhas	Southern Ocean	Completed
2007-2008	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean Transect, Antarctica	Completed
2008	RRS Discovery	Canary-Cape Verde	Completed
2008	RV Polarstern	Southern Atlantic	Completed
2008	RV Knorr 2008	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2008	Trans Future 5	Pacific Ocean Transect	Completed
2008	RV L'Atalante	Gulf of Lion	Completed
2008	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean Transect	Completed
2008	MV Akbar 2008	Bay of Bengal	Completed
2008	RV Islandia	Cape Verde	Completed
2008	USCGC Healy	Bering Sea	Completed
2008	CCGS Amundsen	Beaufort Sea	Completed
2008	Trans Future 5	Pacific Ocean Transect	Completed
2008	RP FLIP	Santa Barbara Basin	Completed
2008	NRV Alliance	Ligurian Sea	Completed
2008	RRS James Clark Ross	Atlantic Ocean Transect	Completed
2008	RV Islandia	Cape Verde	Completed
2008	NOAA Ronald H. Brown	Carribean Sea, Pacific Ocean	Completed
2008	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2008	RV Maria S. Merian	Central and Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2008	RV Marion-Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2008	RV Meteor	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2008-2009	RV Sagar Kanya	Bay of Bengal	Completed
2008-2009	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2009	Norwegian Sun	Southern Atlantic and Pacific	Completed
2009	R/V Marcus G. Langseth	Tropical Pacific	Completed
2009	FORV Sagar Sampada	Arabian Sea	Completed
2009	RV Hesperides	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2009	NRV Alliance	Ligurian Sea	Completed
2009	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2009	RV Baruna Jaya IV	Java Sea	Completed
2009	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2009	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean Transect	Completed
2009	RV Akademik	Black Sea	Completed
2009	RV Islandia	Cape Verde	Completed
2009	RRS Discovery	Canary-Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2009	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2009	RV Jan Mayen	Norwegian, Greenland Seas	Completed
2009	RV Kilo Moana	North Pacific Ocean	Completed
2009	NOAA Ronald H. Brown	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2009	RV Oceania	Norwegian, Greenland Seas	Completed
2009	CCGS Amundsen	Beaufort Sea	Completed
2009	RP FLIP	Tropical Pacific	Completed
2009	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2009	RV Polarstern	Northern Greenland Sea	Completed
2009	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2009	RV Sonne	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2009	Trans Future 5	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2009	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2009	RV Antea	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2009	RRS James Cook	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2009	RV Akademik Ioffe	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2009	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2009	RV Meteor	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2009-2010	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2009-2010	RV Melville	South Pacific Ocean	Completed
2009-2010	RV Astrolabe	South Pacific and South Ocean	Completed
2009-2010	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean transect, South Ocean	Completed
2009-2010	RV Ocean Watch	Around the Americas	Completed
2010	Prince Albert II	Southern Atlantic and South Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Astrolabe	South Ocean	Completed
2010	FORV Sagar Sampada	Arabian Sea	Completed
2010	RV 1	South China Sea	Completed
2010	CCGS Hudson	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2010	NOAA Ronald H. Brown	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2010	RV Southern Surveyor	Indian Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Antea	Indian Ocean, Mozambique Channel	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	Indian Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2010	NOAA Ronald H. Brown	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2010	MV Zim Iberia	Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea	Completed
2010	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2010	RV Atlantis	West Coast US	Completed
2010	RV Knorr	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	South China Sea, Sea of Japan	Completed
2010	RV New Horizon	Gulf of California	Completed
2010	RV Melville	Tropical Pacific	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	Equatorial Pacific, Ceram Sea	Completed
2010	CCGS Amundsen	Labrador Sea, Hudson Bay	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	Indian Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Oceania	Norwegian, Greenland Seas	Completed
2010	MV Zim San Diego	South China Sea, Gulf of Siam	Completed
2010	NRV Alliance	Ligurian Sea	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Akademik Ioffe	Northern Atlantic	Completed
2010	HC Maria	Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Roger Revelle	North Pacific Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Meteor	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2010	RRS Discovery	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2010	RRS James Cook	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2010	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2010	KAUST Explorer	Red Sea	Completed
2010	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2010	RRS James Cook	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2010	RV Southern Surveyor	Tasman Sea	Completed
2010-2011	RRS James Clark Ross	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2010-2011	NP Almirante Maximiano	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2010-2011	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean transect, Southern Ocean	Completed
2010-2011	RV Hesperides	Malaspina Expedition	Completed
2011	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Kilo Moana	North Pacific Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Tangaroa	South Pacific Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Melville	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2011	FRV Tom Marshall	Moreton Bay	Completed
2011	RV Astrolabe	Southern Ocean, South Pacific	Completed
2011	RV Melville	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Challenger	coast of Tasmania	Completed
2011	RRS Discovery	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2011	RV Sagar Sampada	Arabian Sea	Completed
2011	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2011	RV Laurence M. Gould	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Maria S. Merian	Tropical Atlantic	Completed
2011	RV Almirante Gago Coutinho	Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2011	RV Marion Dufresne	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2011	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2011	KAUST Explorer	Red Sea	Completed
2011	RV Mare Nigrum	Black Sea	Completed
2011	RV Akademik	Black Sea	Completed
2011	Dream Island	Red Sea	Completed
2011	SRVx 8501	Chesapeake Bay	Completed
2011	RV Akademik	Black Sea	Completed
2011	NOAA Ronald H. Brown	Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Oceania	Norwegian, Greenland Seas	Completed
2011	RV Maria S. Merian	Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	USCGC Healy	Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean	Completed
2011	MY Vasco	Sulu Sea, South China Sea	Completed
2011	Packcat	coast of Nova Scotia	Completed
2011	RV Melville	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Aegaeo	Red Sea	Completed
2011	RV Akademik Ioffe	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2011	SY Task	Baltic Sea	Completed
2011	RV Aegaeo	Red Sea	Completed
2011	RRS Discovery	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2011	EV Nautilus	Black, Mediterranean Seas	Completed
2011	RV Aegaeo	Red Sea	Completed
2011	RV Mirai	Indian Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2011	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Aegaeo	Red Sea	Completed
2011	Trans Future 5	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Roger Revelle	Indian Ocean	Completed
2011	KM Kelud	Java Sea, Strait of Malacca	Completed
2011	RV Aegaeo	Red Sea	Completed
2011	NHo Cruzeiro do Sul	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2011-2012	RRS James Cook	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011-2012	MV SA Agulhas	South Atlantic, Southern Ocean	Completed
2011-2012	NP Almirante Maximiano	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2011-2012	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean transect, Southern Ocean	Completed
2011-2012	SY Superted V	Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean	Completed
2012	RV F.G. Walton Smith	Gulf of Mexico	Completed
2012	RV Astrolabe	Southern Ocean, South Pacific	Completed
2012	RV Tangaroa	South Pacific Ocean	Completed
2012	7SEAS boat	Gulf of Thailand	Completed
2012	RV Meteor	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2012	RV Maria S. Merian	Caribbean Sea	Completed
2012	RV Urania	Mediterranean Sea	Completed
2012	RV Thomas G. Thompson	North Pacific Ocean	Completed
2012	RP FLIP	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2012	RV Meteor	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2012	RV Polarstern	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2012	RV Oceania	Baltic Sea	Completed
2012	RV Trans Future 5	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2012	Gaylord Nelson	Lake Michigan	Completed
2012	RV Knorr	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	RV Atlantis	Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	RV SA Agulhas II	South Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	Okeanos Explorer	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	RV Oceania	Norwegian, Greenland Seas	Completed
2012	RV Cefas Endeavour	North Sea	Completed
2012	NOAA Ronald H. Brown	Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	KM Kelud	Java Sea, Strait of Malacca	Completed
2012	RV Polarstern	Arctic Ocean	Completed
2012	EV Nautilus	Black, Mediterranean Seas	Completed
2012	RV Akademik	Black Sea	Completed
2012	Hapa	Tropical Pacific	Completed
2012	RV Akademik	Black Sea	Completed
2012	MY Vasco	South China Sea, Sulu Sea	Completed
2012	KM Marisa	Java Sea	Completed
2012	KM Kelud	Java Sea, Strait of Malacca	Completed
2012	KM Binaiya	Java Sea	Completed
2012	RV Sonne	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2012	MV Pelita Jaya	Strait of Malacca	Completed
2012	RV Meteor	Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea	Completed
2012	Horizon Spirit	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2012	Okeanos Explorer	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2012	RRS James Cook	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2012	RV Aegaeo	Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea	Completed
2012	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2012-2013	RV SA Agulhas II	South Atlantic Ocean, Southern Ocean	Completed
2012-2013	RV Akademik Treshnikov	Atlantic Ocean transect	Completed
2012-2013	RV Akademik Fedorov	Atlantic Ocean transect, Southern Ocean	Ongoing
2013	NOAA Ronald Brown	Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2013	RV Pisces	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2013	RV Sonne	South Pacific Ocean	Completed
2013	RV Trans Future 5	Pacific Ocean	Completed
2013	RV Marion Dufresne	South Indian Ocean	Completed
2013	Okeanos Explorer	North Atlantic Ocean	Completed
2013	RV Meteor	Atlantic Ocean	Ongoing
2013	RV Marcus G.Langseth	Atlantic Ocean	Planned
2013	Okeanos Explorer	North Atlantic Ocean	Planned
2013	RV Trans Future 5	Paicfic Ocean	Planned
2013	RV Meteor	Atlantic Ocean	Planned
2013	RV Meteor	South Atlantic Ocean	Planned

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Last Updated: March 02, 2012