A31I:
Cloud Observations and Uncertainties IV Posters

Session ID#: 5340

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Penn State, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States and Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Co-conveners:  Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Penn State, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, United States and Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Index Terms:

0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Comparing Cirrus Cloud Formation and Evolution Using in Situ Aircraft Observations and a Cloud Resolving Model (7593)
Minghui Diao, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Advanced Study Program (ASP), Boulder, CO, United States; NCAR Researc Aviation Facility, Broomfield, CO, United States, Jorgen B Jensen, NCAR, Broomfield, CO, United States, George H Bryan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Hugh Morrison, NSF NCAR, MMM Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Daniel P Stern, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
 
Analyses of Semi-transparent Cirrus Clouds Using Combined Retrievals of CALIPSO Radiometer and Lidar Measurements (16230)
Anne Garnier1, Mark Vaughan2, Mark Vaughan3, David M Winker4, Charles R Trepte4 and Philippe Dubuisson5, (1)Analytical Mechanics Associates, Hampton, United States, (2)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)Lab. d'Optique Atmosphérique, Villeneuve D'Ascq, France
 
Statistical Analysis of Cloud Properties Around China Region Using MODIS (11364)
Min Lv1, Chuanfeng Zhao1, Zhanqing Li2 and Qianqian Wang1, (1)Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)Univ of Maryland College Park, AOSC, College Park, United States
 
Satellite Inference of Thermals and Cloud Base Updraft Speeds Based on Retrieved Surface and Cloud Base Temperatures (11132)
Youtong Zheng, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and Zhanqing Li, Univ of Maryland College Park, AOSC, College Park, United States
 
A Comparison of MODIS-Derived Cloud Amount with Surface Observations at Five SURFRAD Sites (8396)
Ning An, BNU Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China and Kaicun Wang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
Building a 15-Year Cloud Climatology using Lidar in Space Observations: CALIOP and CloudSat now, EarthCARE next. (26765)
Mathieu Reverdy1, Hélène Chepfer2, David P Donovan3, Vincent Noel4, Roger Marchand5, Grégory Cesana6, Christophe Hoareau7, Marjolaine Chiriaco8 and Sophie Bastin8, (1)Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (2)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, 3730, Netherlands, (4)Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France, (5)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (8)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
 
Impact of Cloud Vertical and Horizontal Inhomogeneity on Multi-Spectral Retrieval of Liquid Water Cloud Properties: A Study for the GCOM-C/SGLI Cloud Product by Using A-Train and Landsat-8 Measurements (21382)
Takashi M. Nagao1, Husi Letu2 and Takashi Y. Nakajima2, (1)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Tokai University, Research and Information Center, Tokyo, Japan
 
Comparing sources of variability in cloud-characterized HIRS radiances (13652)
Paul W Staten, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, United States, Brian H Kahn, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Mathias M Schreier, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Andrew K Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States
 
View Angle Dependence of MODIS Liquid Water Path Retrievals in Warm Oceanic Clouds (9273)
Akos Horvath1, Chellappan Seethala2 and Hartwig Deneke1, (1)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Climate, Atmospheric Science & Physical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
CloudSat and Aura MLS Constrain upon Ice Cloud Particle Size Distribution (18629)
Luis F Millan Valle, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Nathaniel J Livesey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (retired), Pasadena, United States and William George Read, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Statistically analyzing indirect effects of increased SO2 Low Level Maritime Clouds using A-Train Satellite Observations (18928)
Adam C Abernathy and Gerald G Mace, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
A Global Cloud Detection Approach for Geostationary Satellites (22320)
Qing Trepte1, Patrick Minnis2, Rabindra Palikonda3, J Kirk Ayers3, Baojuan Shan3 and Mr. Christopher R Yost, MS, Atmospheric Sciences4, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States, (2)SSAI/Larc, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
 
Quantifying the Climate-Scale Accuracy of Satellite Cloud Retrievals (13111)
Yolanda Shea, NASA, Hampton, United States, Bruce A Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Sunny Sun-Mack, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States, Patrick Minnis, SSAI/Larc, Hampton, VA, United States, Lusheng Liang, ADNET Systems Inc., Lanham, United States and Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
 
MODIS Collection 6 Shortwave-Derived Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm and comparisons with CALIOP and POLDER (25834)
Benjamin Marchant1,2, Steven E Platnick1, Thomas Arnold1,3, Kerry Meyer1,2 and Jérôme Riedi4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518 - LOA - Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Lille, France
 
A mid-latitude cirrus cloud climatology from MPLNET at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD (28803)
Jasper R Lewis, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, United States, James R Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States and Ellsworth Judd Welton, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Evaluation results of the optimal estimation based, multi-sensor cloud property data sets derived from AVHRR heritage measurements in the Cloud_cci project. (29389)
Stefan Stapelberg1, Matthias Jerg1, Martin Stengel1, Rainer Hollmann1 and Cloud_cci Team, (1)Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany
 
Cirrus Cloud Radiative Characteristics from Continuous MPLNET Profiling at GSFC in 2012 (29677)
Simone Lolli, NASA GSFC (JCET-UMBC), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jasper R Lewis, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, United States, James R Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, Ellsworth Judd Welton, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yu Gu, UCLA, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States
 
Improving Estimates of Cloud Properties Through the Application of an Adiabatic Spectrally Consistent Retrieval to the MODIS Cloud Product (30486)
John Rausch, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Ralf Bennartz, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, Vincent Puygrenier, LSCE, Gif Sur Yvette, France and Jean-Louis Brenguier, Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France
 
Cloud vertical structure and the impact of MODIS liquid water path retrieval assumptions: Developing a theoretical framework and evaluating retrievals using large-eddy simulations (30712)
Daniel J Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States, Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Andrew S Ackerman, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States