The consortium consists of eight German institutions, including five universities, one institute of the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft and two institutes of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

In the following the respective fields of expertise and special qualifications of each consortium member for SHARP are summarised. The preliminary work of relevance for SHARP is highlighted for each partner. Detailed references are included in the CVs of the partners.

• Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB)

• Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen (UBR)

• Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt (JWGU)

• Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg (UH)

• Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

• Institute of Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen (DLR)

• Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz (MPI-C)

• Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (MPI-M)