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GACP Field Campaigns

TRACE-P

TRACE-P (TRAnsport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific) is a two-aircraft mission over the western north Pacific to be conducted in March-April 2001 by the NASA Global Tropospheric Experiment (GTE). Its objectives are:

  • to determine the chemical composition of the Asian outflow over the western Pacific in spring in order to understand and quantify the export of chemically and radiatively important gases and aerosols, and their precursors, from the Asian continent.
  • to determine the chemical evolution of the Asian outflow over the western Pacific in spring and to understand the ensemble of processes that control this evolution.