The CARIBIC aircraft system for detailed, long-term, global-scale measurement of trace gases and aerosol in a changing atmosphere

Contributed by Carl Brenninkmeijer (carlb@mpchmainz.mpg.de), Franz Slemr (slemr@mpch-mainz. mpg.de), Tanja Schuck (schuck@mpch-mainz.mpg.de), Dieter Scharffe (scharffe@mpch-mainz.mpg.de), Claus Koeppel, (koeppel@mpch-mainz.mpg.de), Martin Pupek (pupek@mpch-mainz.mpg.de), Patrick Jockel (Joeckel@mpch-mainz.mpg.de), Jos Lelieveld (lelieveld@mpch-mainz.mpg.de) and Paul Crutzen (crutzen@mpch-mainz.mpg. de), Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, Tae Siek Rhee (rhee@ kopri.re.kr), Korea Polar Institute, Incheon, Korea, Markus Hermann (Hermann@tropos.de), Andreas Weigelt (andreas.weigelt@tropos.de), Manuela Reichelt (reichelt@chemie.uni-leipzig.de) and Jost Heintzenberg (jost@tropos.de), Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, Andreas Zahn (zahn@imk.fzk.de), Detlev Sprung (sprung@ imk.fzk.de) and Herbert Fischer (Fischer@imk.fzk. de), Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karslruhe, Germany, Helmut Ziereis (helmut.ziereis@ dlr.de), Hans Schlager (hans.schlager@dlr.de) and Ulrich Schumann (ulrich. schumann@dlr.de), Institute for Atmospheric Physics, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Barbara Dix (bdix@iup.uni-heidelberg. de), Udo Friess (udo.friess@ iup.uni-heidelberg.de) and Ulrich Platt (Platt@iup.uniheidelberg.de), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Ralf Ebinghaus (ralf.ebinghaus@gkss.de), GKSS, Geesthacht, Germany, Bengt Martinsson (bengt. martinsson@nuclear.lu.se) and Hung N. Nguyen (hung. ng uye n _ ngo c @ pi xe . l t h . se), Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, David Oram (d.e.oram@uea.ac.uk), Debbie O’Sullivan (debbie. osullivan@metoffice.gov.uk) and Stuart Penkett (M.Penkett@uea.ac.uk), University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, Peter van Velthoven (velthove@ knmi.nl) KNMI, de Bilt, the Netherlands, Thomas Rockmann (T.Roeckmann@phys.uu.nl) and Gerben Pieterse (G.Pieterse@phys.uu.nl), University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, Sergey Assonov (sergey.assonov@ ec.europa.eu), IRMM, Geel, Belgium, Michel Ramonet (michel.ramonet@cea.fr), Irene Xueref-Remy (irene. xueref@cea.fr) and Philippe Ciais (ciais@cea.fr), LSCE/ CEA/CNRS, Paris, France, Stefan Reimann (Stefan. Reimann@empa.ch) and Martin Vollmer (Martin. Vollmer@empa.ch), EMPA, Dubendorf, Switzerland, Markus Leuenberger (mleu@climate.unibe. ch) and Francesco Luca Valentino ( F r a n c e s c o L u c a .Va l e n t i n o @ insightful.com), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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