A11K:
Advances in Spectral and Polarimetric Remote Sensing and Retrieval Techniques for the Characterization of the Atmosphere I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Olga Kalashnikova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Wenbo Sun, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, Olga Kalashnikova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Field test of a new instrument to measure UV/Vis (300-700 nm) ambient aerosol extinction spectra in Colorado during DISCOVER-AQ
Carolyn E Jordan1, Bruce E Anderson2, Andreas Joel Beyersdorf2, Jack E Dibb3, Margaret E Greenslade4, Robert Martin2, Eric M Scheuer1, Michael Shook2, Kenneth Lee Thornhill II5, Don Troop1, Edward Winstead5 and Luke D Ziemba2, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Lowell, MA, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
8:15 AM
 
A new aerosol remote sensing by moderate resolution imagers with near ultra-violet channels
Teruyuki Nakajima1, Makiko Hashimoto1, Satoru Fukuda2, Shotaro Morimoto1 and Hideaki Takenaka1, (1)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
8:30 AM
 
A New Satellite Aerosol Retrieval Using High Spectral Resolution Oxygen A-Band Measurements
David M Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Pengwang Zhai, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
8:45 AM
 
Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols
Otto Peter Hasekamp1, Arjen Stap2, Antonio di Noia2, Jeroen Rietjens2, Martijn Smit2, Gerard van Harten3 and Frans Snik3, (1)Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
9:00 AM
 
All-Sky Imaging of Skylight Polarization With Wildfire Smoke
Joseph A Shaw, Nathan Pust, Elizabeth Forbes and Laura Dahl, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
9:15 AM
 
AERONET Version 3 processing
Brent N Holben1, Ilya Slutsker2, David Matthew Giles2, Thomas F Eck3, Alexander Smirnov2, Alexander Sinyuk2, Joel Schafer2 and Jon Rodriguez2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States
9:30 AM
 
Understanding the absorption Angstrom exponent provided in the AERONET database
Gregory L Schuster, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Oleg Dubovik, University of Lille 1, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France and Antti T Arola, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
9:45 AM
 
Aerosol properties derived from airborne sky radiance and direct beam measurements in recent NASA and DoE field campaigns
Jens Redemann1, Connor Joseph Flynn2, Yohei Shinozuka3, Philip B Russell4, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen3, Michal Segal-Rosenhaimer3, John M Livingston5, Beat Schmid6, Stephen E Dunagan1, Roy R Johnson1, Samuel E LeBlanc7, Sebastian Schmidt8, Peter Pilewskie9 and Shi Song9, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)PNNL, Richland, VA, United States, (3)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, (4)NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)SRI International Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (7)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (8)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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