- Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA), Italy, is the main funding agency of the APE-GAIA campaign; it supported the development of Italian instruments, and contributed to their integration on board the aircraft.
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Italy, supported the development and the integration of most Italian instruments.
- European Union (EU), supported the development of some scientific instruments.
- Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF), Germany, supported the development of German scientific instruments.
- The project has also been made possible by contributions from the individual institutions which developed the scientific instruments.
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy, takes care of the scientific co-ordination of the project through Dr. Bruno Carli of the Istituto per la Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche "Nello Carrara" (IROE).
- Ente nazionale per le Nuove tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (ENEA), Italy, is responsible for the logistic co-ordination the APE-GAIA campaign.
- Myasishchev Design Bureau (MDB), Russia, is the company in charge of the transformation and operative management of the M55-Geophysica platform.
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
- INSTRUMENTS
- MIPAS-STR: Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (IMK-FZK), Germany
- SAFIRE-A: Istituto per la Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche "Nello Carrara" (IROE-CNR), Italy
- GASCOD-A: Istituto per le Scienze dell’Atmosfera e dell’Oceano (ISAO-CNR), Italy
- ECOC, SORAD, FLASH: Central Aerological Observatory (CAO), Russia
- FISH: Institut für Stratosphärische Chemie, Forschungszentrum Jülich (ICG-FZJ), Germany
- FOZAN: CAO, Russia and ISAO-CNR, Italy
- HAGAR: Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
- MAS: Istituto per la Fisica dell’Atmosfera (IFA-CNR), Italy
- ABLE: La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
- MAL1 and MAL2: Observatory of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- METEOROLOGY AND MODELING
- University of L’Aquila, Italy
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (IMK-FZK), Germany
- AUXILIARY MEASUREMENTS
- British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom
- Centro Austral De Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Argentina
- Dirección Nacional del Antártico/Istituto Antártico Argentino (DNA/IAA), Argentina
- Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland
- Instituto Nacional de Meteorología (INM), Spain
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacials (INPE), Brasil
- Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain
- Istituto per la Fisica dell’Atmosfera (IFA-CNR), Italy
- Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), Argentina
- State University of New York (SUNY), United States of America
- Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), Chile
- Universidad National de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Argentina
Personnel in Ushuaia Personnel of Auxiliary Measurements
