The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) will investigate the large-scale effects of emissions from Asia on the composition of the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. In the Indian dry season (winter-spring), extensive convective clouds form over the oceanic "warm pool." The juxtaposition of very clean air from the Southern Hemisphere with the emissions from a population of one billion makes for an ideal natural laboratory to study the interaction of chemistry, microphysics, radiation, and climate.

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