Abstract
The tropical marine boundary layer is of fundamental importance to the whole of the atmospheric motion system by providing a large amount of water vapor into the free atmosphere. It is one of the important subjects for GARP to investigate the turbulent transport mechanism in this layer. In this paper a description is given of a stable platform system that was aimed for turbulent transport measurements on board. The system is designed primarily for turbulent flux measurements by the eddy correlation method on a ship. Various components of the system are briefly described and evaluation data obtained during the summer MONEX field program are also presented. It was found that this system is applicable to the turbulent flux measurement by the eddy correlation method on a ship during MONEX. By further estimation of total errors, it was also found that this system is applicable to the measurements under rougher sea surface conditions.
