Chairs: Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, 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
Downwelling Far-Infrared Emission Spectra Measured By First at Cerro Toco, Chile and Table Mountain, California (8113)
Jeffrey C Mast1, Martin G Mlynczak2, Richard Cageao2, David P Kratz2, David Geoffrey Johnson2, Eli Jay Mlawer3 and David D Turner4, (1)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (4)NOAA Norman, Norman, OK, United States
Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Species Critical to Radiative Forcing of Earth’s Climate (14253)
John C Brasunas Jr1, Theodor Kostiuk1, Timothy A Livengood2, Tilak Hewagama3 and John R. Kolasinski1, (1)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Retrievals of the Deep Convective System Ice Cloud Microphysical Properties using Nexrad and Aircraft In-situ Measurements (18382)
Jingjing Tian, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, United States, Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, Baike Xi, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jingyu Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Gang Hong, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
A New Methodology for Simultaneous Multi-layer Retrievals of Ice and Liquid Water Cloud Properties (22250)
Odran Sourdeval, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518 - LOA - Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Lille, France, Laurent C.-Labonnote, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, Anthony James Baran, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom and Gérard Brogniez, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France
A Depolarisation Lidar Based Method for the Determination of Liquid-Cloud Microphysical Properties. (7813)
David P Donovan1, Henk Klein Baltink2, J. S. Henzing3, Stephan R De Roode4 and Pier Siebesma1,4, (1)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands, (2)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (3)Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)Technical University of Delft (TUD), Delft, Netherlands
Impacts of depolarization calibration methods on cloud phase interpretation at Eureka during 2013 and 2014 CRL lidar measurement campaigns (25213)
Emily M McCullough1, Christopher W Perro2, Shayamila Mahagammulla Gamage1, Jason Hopper2, Robert J Sica3, Thomas Duck2, Kaley A Walker4 and James R Drummond5, (1)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (2)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada, (4)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada
A Polarization-Diversity Homodyne Image-Reject Optical Tranceiver Architecture for Improved Range and Signal Detection in Coherent Doppler Lidars (11139)
Cyrus F Abari, Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Xinzhao Chu, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States and Jakob Mann, Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Roskilde, Denmark
Polarimetric Retrievals of Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations (29760)
Dr. Kenneth Sinclair, PhD1, Brian Cairns2, Johnathan W Hair3, Yongxiang Hu3 and Chris A Hostetler3, (1)Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Characterization of Super‐Cooled Liquid Water Clouds Using the Research Scanning Polarimeter Measurements (14367)
Mikhail D Alexandrov, Columbia University, New York, United States, Brian Cairns, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Andrzej P Wasilewski, Trinnovim LLC, New York, NY, United States and Andrew S Ackerman, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
Horizontal Structure of Dynamical Instability at Marine Stratocumulus Cloud Top Revealed in Polarized Light (Invited) (5629)
Anthony B Davis1, David J Diner2, Georgios Matheou2, Joao Teixeira3, Zheng Qu4 and Claudia Emde5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Raytheon/JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Forward Radiative Transfer Capabilities Facilitating Satellite-based Radiance/Brightness-temperature Observations (18717)
Ping Yang1, Chao Liu1, Shaima L Nasiri2, Steven E Platnick3, Kerry Meyer4, Chenxi Wang5 and Yifeng Ding2, (1)Texas A&M Univ, College Station, United States, (2)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
