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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University in the City of New York, Palisades, NY, United States; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Olga Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Wenbo Sun, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
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.
Jérôme Riedi1, Guillaume Merlin1, Laurent Labonnote1, Céline Cornet1, Nicolas Ferlay1, Marine Desmons1, Philippe Dubuisson1, Frederic Parol1, Anthony B Davis2 and Thierry Marbach3, (1)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
10:35 AM
 
New Cirrus Retrieval Algorithms and Results from eMAS during SEAC4RS
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, WI, 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, MD, 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, MD, United States
10:50 AM
 
Satellite Retrieving CCN(S) By Using Clouds As CCN Chambers
Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
11:05 AM
 
Investigation of Marine Stratocumulus Cloud-top Droplet Size Retrievals from Observations of Supernumerary Bows and Glories in Polarized Light
David J Diner, Feng Xu and Michael J Garay, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Initial Results from Observations Made by the Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) During the Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) Experiment
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, VA, United States, (5)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (7)University of Maine, Walpole, ME, United States
11:35 AM
 
Validating Above-cloud Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieved from MODIS using NASA Ames Airborne Sun-Tracking Photometric and Spectrometric (AATS and 4STAR) Measurements
Hiren T Jethva1, Omar Torres2, Lorraine Ann Remer3, Jens Redemann4, Stephen E Dunagan5, John M Livingston6, Yohei Shinozuka7, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen8 and Michal Segal-Rosenhaimer4, (1)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Ventura, CA, United States, (6)SRI International Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (7)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, (8)BAERI, Moffett Field, CA, United States
11:50 AM
 
An imager-based multispectral retrieval of above-cloud absorbing aerosol optical depth and the optical and microphysical properties of underlying marine stratocumulus clouds
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, Baltimore, MD, United States
12:05 PM
 
Inter-comparison of Above-Cloud Aerosol Observation from OMI and CALIOP
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, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States and James R Campbell, Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States
 
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