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GACP FIELD CAMPAIGNS

The following table lists field campaigns of interest to the aerosol community. Campaigns are listed in reverse chronological order by start date.

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• University of Washington
Campaign Name Field Activity Location(s) Field Activity Dates Organizing/Participating Institutions Objectives and Contact Person
INTEX-NA, ITCT (Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America) Both coasts of US 2004
URL: http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sgg/singh/white_paper.pdf
ITCT 2002 (Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation of Anthropogenic Pollution) West coast of US 2002
URL: http://www.al.noaa.gov/ITCT/
MINOS (Mediterranean INtensive Oxidant Study) Mediterranean Sea 2001 Objectives
URL: http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~reus/minos/
CLAMS (Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites) Chesapeake Bay, 25 km east of Virginia Beach, VA summer 2001 LaRC, JPL Objectives
Thomas Charlock
URL: http://www-cave.larc.nasa.gov/cave/cave2.0/CLAMS.dir/index.html
http://snowdog.larc.nasa.gov/clams/
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HPDOCS/proj_sup.html
ACE-Asia (Asian-Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experimen) East Asia, Western North Pacific Mar-Apr 2001 IGAC objectives
URL: http://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/aceasia/
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/
http://www.ofps.ucar.edu/projects.html
TRACE-P (TRAnsport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific) Western North Pacific Mar-Apr 2001 NASA Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE) objectives
URL: http://www-gte.larc.nasa.gov/gte_miss.htm
http://www-gte.larc.nasa.gov/
SAFARI-2000 Southern Africa Aug-Sep 2000 Bob Swap
URL: http://safari.gecp.virginia.edu/
PRIDE / PELTI (Puerto RIco Dust Experiment) Puerto Rico 25 Jun-25 Jul 2000 • Participants: SC-SD, NRL, GSFC, NASA Ames,JPL, U of Miami;
• Sunphotometry (PDF)
• Meeting Agenda (PDF)
Jeff Reid
• Objectives (PDF)
URL: http://sunspot.spawar.navy.mil
http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/PRIDE/index.html
http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sgg/PRIDE/
ASTAR 2000 (Arctic Study of Tropospheric Aerosol and Radiation) * The measurements will be performed in the vicinity of Spitzbergen
* The aircraft measurements will be performed from Longyearbyen (78.2°N, 15.7°E)
* The ground-based measurements will be performed at Ny-Aalesund (78.9 °N, 11.9°E)
Mar-Apr 2000 * National Institute of Polar Research Tokyo, Japan (Principal Investigator: Takashi Yamanouchi)
* Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research Potsdam/Bremerhaven, Germany (Principal Investigator: Andreas Herber)
Objectives
Andreas Herber
URL: http://www.awi-potsdam.de/www-pot/astar/
LINC (Lidar IN-situ Comparison) Bondville, IL (near Urbana-Champaign) 30 Aug-23 Sep 1999 (1) University of Washington (Dave Covert, Tad Anderson)
(2) University of Arizona (John Reagan)
(3) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Mark Rood)
Objectives
Tad Anderson
URL: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~cheeka/linc/plan.html
INDOEX South Asia, Indian Ocean 1999
http://www-indoex.ucsd.edu
AEROSOLS 99 Atlantic 1999
http://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/data/
PEM Tropics B 1999
http://www-gte.larc.nasa.gov/gte_miss.htm
Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia Amazonia Mar-Apr 1998,
Mar-May 1999,
Aug-Oct 1999
Paulo Artaxo
FIRE-ACE/SHEBA Arctic 1997-1998 Bob Curran
URL: http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/ACEDOCS/
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/sheba/
ACE-2 (North Atlantic Regional Aerosol Characterisation Experiment) North Atlantic Region 16 Jun-25 Jul 1997 IGAC
URL: http://www.ei.jrc.it/ace2/
TARFOX (Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational eXperiment) U.S. Eastern Seaboard Jul 1996 P.B.Russell, P.V.Hobbs, L.L. Stowe
URL: http://geo.arc.nasa.gov:80/sgg/tarfox/
PEM Tropics A 1996
http://www-gte.larc.nasa.gov/gte_miss.htm
ACE-1 (Southern Hemisphere Aerosol Characterization Experimen) Southwest Pacific Ocean and South of Australia 15 Nov-14 Dec 1995
URL: http://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/ace1.html
SCAR-B (Smoke, Clouds And Radiation - Brazil) Brazil 17 Aug-20 Sep 1995 •Tim Suttles
ARMCAS (Arctic Radiation Measurement in Column Atmosphere-Surface System) Arctic 3-15 Jun 1995 Michael King
Peter Hobbs
USA.gov

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