A13N:
Advances in Spectral and Polarimetric Remote Sensing and Retrieval Techniques for the Characterization of the Atmosphere III

Session ID#: 5283

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Wenbo Sun, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, 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:

A new high spectral resolution lidar technique for direct retrievals of cloud and aerosol extinction (16674)
John E Yorks, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Matthew J McGill, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Dennis L Hlavka, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Characterization of Cirrus Cloud Properties by Airborne Differential Absorption and High Spectral Resolution Lidar Measurements (15909)
Gerhard Ehret1, Silke Gross1, Andreas Schäfler2, Martin Wirth2, Andreas Fix3 and Christoph Kiemle1, (1)German Aerospace Center Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Climate Change Accuracy: Requirements and Economic Value (Invited) (2814)
Bruce A Wielicki1, Roger marvin Cooke2, Martin G Mlynczak3, Constantine Lukashin1, Kurtis J Thome4, Rosemary R Baize1 and CLARREO Science Team, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Overview of the Progression of NASA’s CLARREO Mission (Invited) (30507)
Rosemary R Baize, Bruce A Wielicki, David F Young and Constantine Lukashin, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Leveraging Oceanic and Surface Intensive Field Campaign Data Sets for Validation and Improvement of Recent Hyperspectral IR Satellite Data Products (Invited) (3310)
Everette Joseph, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States; Howard University, Washington, DC, United States, Nicholas R Nalli, IMSG, Inc., at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park MD, United States, Mayra Oyola Merced, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States, Vernon R Morris, Arizona State University, Associate Dean, New College ASU West, Tempe, AZ, United States and Ricardo Sakai, Howard University, Washington, United States
An Analysis of Far-Infrared Radiances Obtained By the First Instrument at Table Mountain through the Use of Radiative Transfer Calculations (8469)
David P Kratz1, Martin G Mlynczak2, Richard Cageao1, David Geoffrey Johnson1 and Jeffrey C Mast3, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, (3)NASA Postdoctoral Program, Hampton, United States
Climate Feedback Studies Using 4D Distributions of Clouds and Aerosols (23023)
Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Modeling Polarized Solar Radiation for Correction of Satellite Data (3992)
Wenbo Sun, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States