Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the following people for their cooperation and participation in this exercise. Their motivation and active involvement made this study possible. Our special thanks are addressed to those who joined the scientific party on board R/V Meteor for their willingness to cope with all the little problems such an exercise inevitably provides.

• Douglas Wallace, Kenneth Johnson, and Craig Neill, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Department of Applied Science, Upton, Long Island, New York, U.S.A.
• Bronte Tilbrook and Philip Towler, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Division of Oceanography, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Joanna Waniek, Susanne Schweinsberg, and Frank Malien, Institut für Meereskunde Kiel (Institute of Marine Research), Kiel, Germany
• Hisayuki Inoue and Masao Ishii, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
• Gary Shaffer, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Rodrigo Torres, Goteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Analytical and Marine Chemistry, Goteborg, Sweden
• Eiji Ohtaki and Eiji Yamashita, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
• Andrew Dickson and Justine Parks, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Physical Laboratory, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
• Alain Poisson, Christian Brunet, and Bernard Schauer, Universit Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Marines, Paris, France
• Catherine Goyet and Greg Eischeid, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

In addition, we wish to thank the chief scientist of Meteor Cruise 36/1, Detlev Schulz-Bull, for perfect cooperation and for giving this exercise the high priority it needed. We appreciate the valuable comments and helpful advice from Andrew Dickson during the early stages of the exercise. Our thanks to Douglas Wallace and Andrew Watson for reviewing the manuscript and making helpful comments.

We also express our appreciation to the Reedereigemeinschaft Forschungsschiffahrt GmbH and the crew of R/V Meteor for their extremely helpful technical support before and throughout the cruise.

On behalf of the participants of this intercomparison exercise, we extend special thanks to all national funding agencies for providing the participants with the necessary funding.

Last but not least, the authors thank the Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) for funding this exercise through German Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) funds as well as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for making it possible to invite the international participants on this cruise.