Jawa Sea Multi-Instrumented Network Experiment (JASMINE)

热带地区深对流的发生影响着全球环流，因为它将大气边界层的热量输送到对流层上层。在被世界上最温暖的海水所包围的“海洋大陆印度尼西亚”，对流云最活跃。为了研究这一地区的大气现象，1998年7月，一台边界层雷达被运到并安装在印度尼西亚西苏门答腊省的Bukittinggi。为了观测赤道地区的低层大气，我们一直在与另一台安装在雅加达附近Serpong的BLR一起运行。此外，我们还利用地面气象仪器、臭氧探测仪、探空仪等进行了同步观测。我们发展了根据BLR观测资料对降水云类型进行分类的方法，并发现了它们在白天和雨季以及爪哇和苏门答腊之间的差异

The occurrence of deep convection in the tropics affects the global circulation, sine it transports the heat from atmospheric boundary layer to the upper troposphere. In "maritime continent Indonesia", which is surrounded by the warmest sea water in the world, the most active convective clouds are generated there.To investigate the atmospheric phenomena in this region, in July 1998, a boundary layer radar was transported to and installed in Bukittinggi, West Sumatera, Indonesia. In order to observe the lower atmosphere in equatorial region, we are continuously operating the BLR together with another BLR which is installed in Serpong near Jakarta. Moreover we conducted simultaneous observations with a surface meteorological instrument, ozone sondes, rawinsondes etc. We developed the method to classify precipitating cloud types from the BLR observation data, and found their differences between day and rainy seasons and between Java and Sumatera