INDOEX White Paper

Indian Ocean Experiment

V. Ramanathan¹, P.J. Crutzen^1,2, M.O. Andreae², J. Coakley^1,3, R. Dickerson^1,4,
J. Heintzenberg⁵, A. Heymsfield^1,6, J.T. Kiehl^1,6, D. Kley^1,7, T.N. Krishnamurti⁸,
J. Kuettner⁶, J. Lelieveld⁹, S.C. Liu¹⁰, A.P. Mitra¹¹, J. Prospero¹²,
R. Sadourny¹³, A.F. Tuck¹⁰, F.P.J. Valero¹⁴

Authors
Preliminary List of International Participants
Executive Summary
CHAPTER 1 Aerosols, Clouds and Chemistry
CHAPTER 2 Rationale: Why the Indian Ocean?
- Strong Source of Natural and Anthropogenic Emissions
- Favorable Surface Flow for Testing the Direct Aerosol Effect
- Seasonal Change in the Direct Effect of Aerosols
- Source of Deep Convective/Cirrus Cloud Systems
- Juxtaposition of Polluted and "Pristine" Air
- Ideal Region for Testing the Indirect Effect of Aerosols
- Convection and Ozone Formation
CHAPTER 3 Scientific Goals And Objectives
- Primary Objectives
- Targets of Opportunity
CHAPTER 4 Experimental Details
- Year of Experiment and Domain
- Experimental Design
- Role of Models
- Ongoing and Planned Aerosol Related Experiments
- Other Experiments in the Indian Ocean
- Proposal, Funding, International Participation
References
Acronyms

1) Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California
2) Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
3) College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
4) Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
5) Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
6) National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
7) Institute for Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
8) Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
9) Air Quality Department, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
10) NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
11) National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India
12) Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
13) Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Normale Supérieur, Paris, France
14) Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California

Acknowledgments:

The research reported here was funded by NSF ATM 94-05024 grant to the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate. Publication of this document was funded by the Victor Alderson Endowed Fund at the University of California, San Diego, and the Vetlesen Foundation Fund at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This is publication #143 of the Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate.

INDOEX White Paper

Indian Ocean Experiment

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