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An introduction to the SCOUT-AMMA stratospheric aircraft, balloons and sondes campaign in West Africa, August 2006: rationale and roadmap
F. Cairo
Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima ISAC-CNR , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
J. P. Pommereau
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
K. S. Law
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
H. Schlager
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
A. Garnier
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
F. Fierli
Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima ISAC-CNR , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
M. Ern
ICG-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
M. Streibel
European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
S. Arabas
Institute of Geophysics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
S. Borrmann
Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Particle Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
J. J. Berthelier
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
C. Blom
Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK), Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe und Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
T. Christensen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
F. D'Amato
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy
G. Di Donfrancesco
Ente Nazionale per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Frascati, Italy
T. Deshler
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Wyoming University, Laramie, USA
A. Diedhiou
LTHE, Université J.Fourier, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement-France, Grenoble, France
G. Durry
Groupe de Spectroscopie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne and CNRS, Reims, France
O. Engelsen
Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway
F. Goutail
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
N. R. P. Harris
European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
E. R. T. Kerstel
Center for Isotope Research, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
S. Khaykin
Central Aerological Observatory, Moscow, Russia
P. Konopka
ICG-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
A. Kylling
Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway
N. Larsen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
T. Lebel
LTHE, Université J.Fourier, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement-France, Grenoble, France
X. Liu
Groupe de Spectroscopie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne and CNRS, Reims, France
A. R. MacKenzie
Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
J. Nielsen
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
A. Oulanowski
Central Aerological Observatory, Moscow, Russia
D. J. Parker
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
J. Pelon
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
J. Polcher
Laboratoire de Météoreologie Dynamique, CNRS, Paris, France
J. A. Pyle
Chemistry Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, NCAS-Climate, Cambridge, UK
F. Ravegnani
Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima ISAC-CNR , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
E. D. Rivière
Groupe de Spectroscopie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne and CNRS, Reims, France
A. D. Robinson
Chemistry Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
T. Röckmann
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
C. Schiller
ICG-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
F. Simões
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
L. Stefanutti
Istituto di Ricerche per la Protezione Idrogeologica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy
Geophysica-EEIG, Firenze, Italy
F. Stroh
ICG-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
L. Some
INERA, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
P. Siegmund
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute – KNMI, The Netherlands
N. Sitnikov
Central Aerological Observatory, Moscow, Russia
J. P. Vernier
LATMOS, CNRS, Université de Versailles St-Quentin, Université Paris 6, France
C. M. Volk
Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
C. Voigt
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
M. von Hobe
ICG-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
S. Viciani
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze, Italy
V. Yushkov
Central Aerological Observatory, Moscow, Russia
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