*Makoto Saito¹, Yukio Yoshida¹, Hibiki Noda¹, Isamu Morino¹, Osamu Uchino¹, Tsuneo Matsunaga¹, Tatsuya Yokota¹, Shamil Maksyutov¹ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies)

*Kumiko TAKATA^1,2,3, Prabir Patra³, Dmitry Belikov^2,1, Ayumi Kotani⁴, Junko Mori^3,1, GTMIP Group, Kazuhito Ichii³, Tazu Saeki³, Yosuke Niwa⁵, Kazuyuki Saito³, Takeshi Ohta⁴, Shamil Maksyutov², Toshinobu Machida², Alexander Ganshin^6,7, Ruslan Zhuravlev^6,7, Atsuko Sugimoto⁸, Shuji Aoki⁹ (1.Arctic Environment Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research, 2.CGER, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 3.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 4.Nagoya Univ., 5.Meteoroligical Research Institute, JMA, 6.Tomsk State University, 7.Central Aerological Observatory, 8.Hokkaido University, 9.Tohoku University)

*Shamil S Maksyutov¹, Irina E Terentieva², Mikhail V Glagolev³ (1.National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, 2.Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, 3.Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)

*Dmitry Belikov^1,2,3, Shamil Maksyutov¹, Alexander Ganshin^3,4, Ruslan Zhuravlev^3,4, Motoki Sasakawa¹ (1.Center for Global Environmental Research National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2.National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, 3.Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, 4.Central Aerological Observatory, Dolgoprudny, Russia)

*Pavel Groisman^1,2,3, Garik Gutman⁴, Sergey Gulev², Shamil Maksyutov⁵, Jiaguo Qi⁶ (1.University Corp. for Atmospheric Research Project Scientist at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 2.P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia, 3.Hydrology Science and Services Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 4.NASA Headquarters, Washington, District Columbia, USA, 5.National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, 6.Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA)