A21C:
Advances in Spectral and Polarimetric Remote Sensing and Retrieval Techniques for the Characterization of the Atmosphere IV Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, 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:

 
Downwelling Far-Infrared Emission Spectra Measured By First at Cerro Toco, Chile and Table Mountain, California
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
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, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Exact Calculations of Light Scattering By Hexagonal Ice Crystals for Large Size Parameters
Piotr J Flatau, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Light Scattering by Ice Crystals Containing Air Bubbles
Jianing Zhang, R. Lee Panetta, Ping Yang and Lei Bi, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Retrievals of the Deep Convective System Ice Cloud Microphysical Properties using Nexrad and Aircraft In-situ Measurements
Jingjing Tian1, Xiquan Dong1, Baike Xi1, Jingyu Wang1 and Gang Hong2, (1)University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, (2)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States
 
A New Methodology for Simultaneous Multi-layer Retrievals of Ice and Liquid Water Cloud Properties
Odran Sourdeval1, Laurent Labonnote2, Anthony J Baran3 and Gérard Brogniez2, (1)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France, (3)MetOffice, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
Quantification of ice cloud particle roughness from multi-angle satellite observations
Souichiro Hioki, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States and Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Research of Cloud Temperature and Optical Depth Using Rotational-Vibrational Raman Lidar
Jia Su, Michael Patrick McCormick and Liqiao Lei, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
 
A Depolarisation Lidar Based Method for the Determination of Liquid-Cloud Microphysical Properties.
David P Donovan1, Henk Klein Baltink1, J. S. Henzing2, Stephan R De Roode3 and Pier Siebesma1,3, (1)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (2)Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)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
Emily M McCullough1, Christopher W Perro2, Shayamila Mahagammulla Gamage1, Jason Hopper2, Robert J Sica1, Thomas Duck2, Kaley A Walker3 and James R Drummond2, (1)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (2)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (3)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
A Polarization-Diversity Homodyne Image-Reject Optical Tranceiver Architecture for Improved Range and Signal Detection in Coherent Doppler Lidars
Cyrus F Abari1,2, Xinzhao Chu2 and Jakob Mann3, (1)Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Technical University of Denmark, Wind Energy, Roskilde, Denmark
 
Polarimetric Retrievals of Cloud Droplet Number Concentrations
Kenneth Sinclair1, Brian Cairns2, Johnathan W Hair3, Yongxiang Hu3 and Chris A Hostetler3, (1)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Probing the sensitivity of polarimetric O2 A-band measurements to clouds with emphasis on potential OCO-2 and GOSAT retrievals
Suniti Sanghavi, Matthew D Lebsock and Graeme L Stephens, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Characterization of Super‐Cooled Liquid Water Clouds Using the Research Scanning Polarimeter Measurements
Mikhail D Alexandrov1, Brian Cairns2, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven1, Andrzej P Wasilewski3 and Andrew S Ackerman2, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)Trinnovim LLC, New York, NY, United States
 
Horizontal Structure of Dynamical Instability at Marine Stratocumulus Cloud Top Revealed in Polarized Light
Anthony B Davis1, David J Diner1, Georgios Matheou1, Joao Teixeira1, Zheng Qu2 and Claudia Emde3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Raytheon/JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
 
Forward Radiative Transfer Capabilities Facilitating Satellite-based Radiance/Brightness-temperature Observations
Ping Yang1, Chao Liu1, Shaima L Nasiri2, Steven E Platnick3, Kerry Meyer4, Chenxi Wang5 and Yifeng Ding2, (1)Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, 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, MD, United States
 
Characterizing global distributions of dusty cloud using CALIPSO
Yuhong Helen Yi, Hongchun Jin and Jianping Huang, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
 
An Assessment of the In-flight Polarization Response of SCIAMACHY
Patricia Liebing1, Ralph Snel2, Klaus Bramstedt1 and Matthijs Krijger2, (1)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
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