Acknowledgments

The EMeRGe coordination team is grateful to everyone who helps EMeRGe to become a success.

Special thanks go to:

• the EMeRGe international team for its steady efforts, support and enthusiasm
• the community creating and developing the Mission Support System (MSS) for HALO research flights for the great communication and support offered in the planning phase of the campaigns
• the providers of essential forecast data for the flight planning, in particular to the CAMS and HYSPLIT communities
• enviscope GmbH for their hard and good work in both EMeRGe campaign preparation and execution phases
• DLR-FX-Operations for the great support in the EMeRGe flight planning and in getting -the not always easy- flight permission
• the whole team in the Research Center of Environmental Changes (RCEC) of Academia Sinica and in particular to Dr. Wei-Nai Chen (James) for his extreme valuable support and enormous effort to solve flight permission and logistical issues for the EMeRGe campaign in Asia
• Air Asia Company Limited for the friendly and professional support during the campaign in Asia with HALO base in Tainan
• LPL Projects + Logistics GmbH and Lexzau, Scharbau GmbH & Co. KG (LeSchaCo) for the support in preparing the documentation and arranging the shipment of the container with scientific equipment and dangerous goods from Germany to Taiwan
• Amphibian Project International Co. Ltd. for arranging the complex shipment of the container with scientific equipment and dangerous goods back to Germany
  
• the Postgraduate International Programme in Physics and Electrical Engineering (PIP) of the University of Bremen for granting travel costs of students participating in the measurement campaigns and in scientific congresses for presentation of results
  
• the HALO-SPP Coordination Team for their support to solve complex EMeRGe issues and in particular to Dr. Jörg Schmidt for his intensive and great job motivating to participate and coordinating the LIDAR and ground based measurements in Europe and Asia
  
• the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) for supporting the EMeRGe project within the DFG Priority Program SPP 1294