ICIG: International Coordination and Implementation Group

The ICIG is responsible for the implementation of the multi-year field campaign. It is under the control of the International Steering Scientific Committee (ISSC) to ensure that it meets the scientific needs of the AMMA progamme.

The major task of the ICIG is to ensure a real coherency and good coordination of all the field work scheduled by each of the various AMMA components. This is a difficult but necessary commitment in order to reach the overall ambitious scientific goals of the program, and not only the piece wise goals of each individual project.

To that end, AMMA has been structured in Task Teams (TTs) and Support teams (STs), defined around a coherent ensemble of instruments in term of observing strategy. The task teams are thus cutting across the scientific working groups set up by the ISSC, as well as across the individual projects composing AMMA. Each TT has produced a TT document which describes in detail its specific strategy. These documents are found as chapters of the AMMA International Implementation Plan.

ICIG Documents      

Task Teams

• TT1 site Sounding of the Atmosphere. More information:TT1 document (latest update: 23.02.2006, pdf, 0.5 MB)
• TT2a site EOP Surface Flux Measurements. More information: TT2a document (latest update: 23.01.2006, pdf, 0.2 MB)
• TT2b site EOP/LOP Aerosols Monitoring and Radiation. More information:TT2b document (latest update: 23.01.2006, pdf, 0.7 MB)
• TT3 site EOP Integrative studies on the Gourma meso-scale site (Mali). More information: TT3 document (latest update: 29.07.2005, pdf, 3.8 MB)
• TT4 site EOP Integrative studies on the Niger meso-scale site. More information: TT4 document (latest update: 03.04.2006, pdf, 0.8MB)
• TT5 site EOP Integrative studies on the Ouémé meso-scale site. More information: TT5 document (latest update: 31.03.2006, pdf, 1.4 MB)
• TT6 site Oceanic campaigns and measurements from open Ocean (EOP and SOP). More information: TT6 document (latest update: 16.05.2006, pdf, 1.4 MB)
• TT7 site Characterisation of Aerosols during the dry season and analysis of their radiative impact. More information: TT7 document (latest update: 23.01.2006, pdf, 1.8 MB)
• TT8 site SOP Monsoon. More information: TT8 document (latest update:19.05.2006, pdf, 2.7 MB)
• TT9 site AMMA Downstream (SOP-3) More information: TT9 document (latest update:02.03.2006, pdf, 1.4 MB)
• ST4: AMMA Training and Capacity Building Support Team. More information: ST4 document (latest update: 08.11.2005, pdf, 0.04 MB)

Support Teams

The Support team (ST) responsibilities are:

• to act in support of Task Teams;
• to look in more detail into operational matters and funding issues related to these "cross-cutting" actions;
• to propose a scheme of operations to be agreed upon by Task Team leaders and to be submitted to the ISSC to verify that these schemes satisfy the needs of AMMA.

ST4 has the responsibility to help to mobilize human, logistic and funding resources to favour the involvement of Africans in AMMA. This will express in term of technical and university training and capacity building for research and field observations. ST4 will favour collaboration between African teams as much as possible.

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ST2

ST3

ST4