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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 108, NO. 0, XXXX, doi:10.1029/2002JD003277, 2003 1 Characterization of carbonaceous aerosols outflow from India and 2 Arabia: Biomass/biofuel burning and fossil fuel combustion 3 S. A. Guazzotti,1 D. T. Suess,1,2 K. R. Coffee,1,3 P. K. Quinn,4 T. S. Bates,4 A. Wisthaler,5 4 A. Hansel,5 W. P. Ball,6 R. R. Dickerson,7 C. Neusu¨ß,8 P. J. Crutzen,9,10 and K. A. Prather1 5 Received 2 December 2002; revised 25 February 2003; accepted 11 March 2003; published XX Month 2003. 6 [1] A major objective of the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) involves the 7 characterization of the extent and chemical composition of pollution outflow from the 8 Indian Subcontinent during the winter monsoon. During this season, low-level flow 9 from the continent transports pollutants over the Indian Ocean toward the Intertropical 10 Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Traditional standardized aerosol particle chemical analysis, 11 together with real-time single particle and fast-response gas-phase measurements 12 provided characterization of the sampled aerosol chemical properties. The gas- and 13 particle-phase chemical compositions of encountered air parcels changed according to 14 their geographic origin, which was traced by back trajectory analysis. The temporal 15 evolutions of acetonitrile, a long-lived specific tracer for biomass/biofuel burning, 16 number concentration of submicrometer carbon-containing particles with potassium 17 (indicative of combustion sources), and mass concentration of submicrometer non-sea- 18 salt (nss) potassium are compared. High correlation coefficients (0.84 r2 0.92) are 19 determined for these comparisons indicating that most likely the majority of the species 20 evolve from the