Direct Aerosol Radiative Forcing from Combined A-Train Observations – Preliminary Comparisons with AeroCom Models and Pathways to Observationally Based All-sky Estimates

John M Livingston1, Jens Redemann2, Yohei Shinozuka3, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen4, Philip B Russell2, Samuel E LeBlanc5, Mark Vaughan6, Richard Anthony Ferrare6, Chris A Hostetler6, Raymond R Rogers6, Sharon P Burton6, Omar Torres7, Lorraine A Remer8, Philip Stier9 and Nick Schutgens10, (1)SRI International Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)BAERI/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences, Baltimore, United States, (9)University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom, (10)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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