A12A:
Advances in Spectral and Polarimetric Remote Sensing and Retrieval Techniques for the Characterization of the Atmosphere II

Session ID#: 5282

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Olga V Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Wenbo Sun, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Information Content Analysis for the Multi-Viewing, Multi-Channel, Multi-Polarization Imaging (3MI) Instrument : Toward Retrieval of Vertically Resolved Cloud Properties from Passive Only Measurements. (Invited) (3352)
Jérôme Riedi1, Guillaume Merlin2, Laurent C.-Labonnote3, Céline Cornet3, Nicolas Ferlay3, Marine Desmons4, Philippe Dubuisson3, Frederic Parol5, Anthony B Davis6 and Thierry Marbach7, (1)Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518 - LOA - Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Lille, France, (2)Université Lille-1, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA), Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (3)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (4)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France, (5)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Lille, France, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
New Cirrus Retrieval Algorithms and Results from eMAS during SEAC4RS (23262)
Robert Holz1, Steven E Platnick2, Kerry Meyer3, Chenxi Wang4, Galina Wind5, Thomas Arnold5, Michael D King6, John E Yorks7 and Matthew J McGill2, (1)UW SSEC, Madison, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Satellite Retrieving CCN(S) By Using Clouds As CCN Chambers (10886)
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Investigation of Marine Stratocumulus Cloud-top Droplet Size Retrievals from Observations of Supernumerary Bows and Glories in Polarized Light (20670)
David J Diner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Feng Xu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael J Garay, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and The AirMSPI Team
Initial Results from Observations Made by the Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) During the Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) Experiment (19637)
Brian Cairns1, Jacek Chowdhary2, Chris A Hostetler3, Johnathan W Hair3, Yongxiang Hu3, Carolyn F Butler4, Kathleen A Powell5, Richard Anthony Ferrare3, Sharon P Burton3, Alexander Gilerson6 and Ivona Cetinic7, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (7)Morgan State University, GESTAR II, Baltimore, United States
Validating Above-cloud Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieved from MODIS using NASA Ames Airborne Sun-Tracking Photometric and Spectrometric (AATS and 4STAR) Measurements (19628)
Hiren T Jethva1, Omar Torres2, Lorraine A Remer3, Jens Redemann4, Stephen E Dunagan5, John M Livingston6, Yohei Shinozuka7, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen8 and Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer8, (1)Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences, Baltimore, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (5)Ames Associate/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (6)SRI International Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (7)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
An imager-based multispectral retrieval of above-cloud absorbing aerosol optical depth and the optical and microphysical properties of underlying marine stratocumulus clouds (17247)
Kerry Meyer, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States
Inter-comparison of Above-Cloud Aerosol Observation from OMI and CALIOP (14130)
Ricardo Alfaro-Contreras, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, Jianglong Zhang, U of N Dakota-Atmos Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, United States, Jeffrey S Reid, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, United States and James R Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States