*Shamil Maksyutov¹, Rajesh Janardanan¹, Lorna Nayagam¹, Tomohiro Oda², Makoto Saito¹, Motoki Sasakawa¹, Toshinobu Machida¹, Johannes W Kaiser³, Dmitry Belikov⁴, Alexander Ganshin⁵, Ruslan Zhuravlev⁵, Vinu Valsala⁶ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, 2.USRA/ NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, USA, 3.Max Plank Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, 4.Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 5.Central Aerological Observatory, Dolgoprudny, Russia, 6.Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India)

*Goto Shuji¹, Yuya Tada², Koji Suzuki^1,3, Youhei Yamashita^1,3 (1.Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University)

*Shunsuke Tei¹, Atsuko Sugimoto¹, Trofim Maximov^2,3 (1.Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2.Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone SB RAS, 3.BEST center, North Eastern Federal University)

*Makoto Saito¹, Yukio Yoshida¹, Hibiki M Noda¹, Akihide Kamei¹ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies)

*Nobuko Saigusa¹, Toshinobu Machida¹, Prabir Patra², Yosuke Niwa³, Kazuhito Ichii² (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.Meteorological Research Institute)

*Hiroyuki Muraoka¹, Nobuko Saigusa², Hibiki M. Noda², Antonio Bombelli³, André Obregón⁴ (1.River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, 2.Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 3.CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, 4.Group on Earth Observations)

*Akitomo Yamamoto¹, Ayako Abe-Ouchi¹, Yasuhiro Yamanaka² (1.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo , 2.Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University)

*Miyuki Kondo¹, Hiroshi A Takahashi², Shinpei Yoshitake³, Mitsutoshi Tomotsune⁴, Kazutoshi Kinjo⁵, Toshiyuki Ohtsuka³ (1.National Institute for Environmental Studies, 2.National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 3.Gifu University, 4.Kobe University, 5.University of the Ryukyus)

*Akitomo Yamamoto¹, Ayako Abe-Ouchi¹ (1.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo )

*Chin-chang Hung¹ (1.National Sun Yat Sen University)