Chairs:  Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States 
Primary Conveners:  Ralph A Kahn, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States 
Co-conveners:  Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States 
OSPA Liaisons:  Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States 
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Is There a Common Correction for Biases in Historic Filter-Based Aerosol Absorption Measurements?
			
			
			
				
					Allison C McComiskey1, Anne Jefferson1, Manvendra Krishna Dubey2, Allison C Aiken2, Jerome D Fast3, Connor Joseph Flynn4 and Evgueni Kassianov4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (4)PNNL, Richland, VA, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				MODIS Collection 6 e-Deep Blue Aerosols: Overview and Validation
			
			
			
				
					Corey Bettenhausen1,2, Nai-Yung Christina Hsu2, Andrew M Sayer2,3 and Jaehwa Lee2,4, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Creating a consistent dark-target aerosol optical depth record from MODIS and VIIRS
			
			
			
				
					Robert C Levy1, Shana Mattoo1,2, Leigh A Munchak1,2, Falguni Patadia1,3 and Robert Holz4, (1)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				The Multi-Dimensional Challenge of Validating Remote-Sensing Aerosol-Type Retrievals
			
			
			
				
					Ralph A Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Barbara J Gaitley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and James Limbacher, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				The Impacts of Oceanic Bubbles on the Elevated Southern Oceans Anomaly (ESOA) Over High Latitude Oceans
			
			
			
				
					Matt Christensen, 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 Edward J. Hyer, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				A New Stratospheric Aerosol Product from CALIPSO Lidar Measurements
			
			
			
				
					Jayanta Kar1, Mark Vaughan2, Charles R Trepte2, David M Winker2, Jean-Paul Vernier1, Michael C Pitts2, Stuart A Young3, Zhaoyan Liu1, Patricia Lucker1, Jason Lucas Tackett1 and Ali H Omar2, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Characterization of Long-Range Transport of Biomass Burning Aerosols Using Raman Lidar, Satellite Retrieval, Back Trajectory, and a Global Model
			
			
			
				
					Alexei Lyapustin1, Huifen Bian1, Mian Chin2, Igor S. Veselovsky3, Tom L Kuscera4 and Yujie Wang5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Physics Instrumentation Center of General Physics Institute, Troitsk, Russia, (4)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Retrieving Aerosol Plume Height Information by Synergistic Use of VIIRS, OMPS, and CALIOP Observations
			
			
			
				
					Jaehwa Lee1, Nai-Yung Christina Hsu2, Corey Bettenhausen3, Andrew M Sayer4, Colin J Seftor3 and Myeong-Jae Jeong5, (1)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (5)Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, South Korea
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Updated global volcanic sulfur emissions and the direct radiative forcing during 2005-2012: GEOS-Chem simulations with constraints from OMI and CALIOP
			
			
			
				
					Cui Ge1, Jun Wang1, Simon A Carn2, Kai Yang3 and Paul A Ginoux4, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				A Consistent Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) Dataset over China
			
			
			
				
					Yahui Che1,2, Yong Xue1,3, Hui Xu1,2 and Jie Guang1, (1)RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)London Metropolitan University, Faculty of Life Sciences and Computing, London, United Kingdom