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Figure 22. The Asian Brown Cloud. Synoptic view of the Asian during The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), left, for the SEAWIFS satellite. The three photographs on the right taken from the C-130 research aircraft show images of (a) the dense haze in the Arabian Sea, (b) the trade cumuli embedded in the haze, and (c) the pristine southern Indian Ocean. (Courtesy of N. Kuring, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Kuring, 2002).