A31H:
Cloud Observations and Uncertainties III Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Primary Conveners:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Co-conveners:  Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Penn State, University Park, PA, United States, Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, CA, United States and Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Global Cloud Re-Analysis at the Air Force Weather Agency
Timothy E Nobis, Northrop Grumman Corporation Bellevue, SEMS III, Bellevue, NE, United States
 
Study of Clouds Behavior in Central Amazonia Region around Manaus City, using Caliop Information and Comparison with Measurements from Ground Based Instruments.
Boris Barja Gonzalez1,2, Henrique M Barbosa2, Jorge Rosas1, Diego ALVES Gouveia2 and Paulo Artaxo2, (1)Grupo de Óptica Atmosférica de Camagüey. Centro Meteorológico de Camagüey, Instituto de Meteorología de Cuba,, Camagüey, Cuba, (2)Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo., São Paulo, Brazil
 
An Improved Retrieval for Cloud Water Contents from the Second Generation Closed Path Laser Hygrometer
Bryan Rainwater1, Lars Kalnajs2, Linnea M Avallone3, Cynthia H Twohy4,5, David C Noone1,6 and Darin W Toohey1, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, (4)NorthWest Research Associates Redmond, Redmond, WA, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (6)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Monitoring Ultra Violet Irradiance at the Surface of the Earth: The Belgian Network
Praveen K Pandey1,2 and Didier Gillotay1, (1)Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (2)Belgian User Support and Operations Centre, Brussels, Belgium
 
An Intercomparison of In Situ Observations of Cloud Water Content from the NSF Gulfstream V Aircraft During IDEAS 2013
Darin W Toohey1, Lars Kalnajs2, Bryan Rainwater1, Cynthia H Twohy3,4, David C Noone1,5 and Linnea M Avallone6, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NorthWest Research Associates Redmond, Redmond, WA, United States, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
 
Monthly and Seasonal Cloud Cover Patterns at the Manila Observatory (14.64°N, 121.08°E)
Nofel Lagrosas, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines, Carlo Ting Antioquia, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines and Kevin Caballa, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines
 
Cirrus cloud properties inferred from multispectral imager and lidar measurements
Hironobu Iwabuchi and Shuichiro Katagiri, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
 
Cloud properties retrieved from airborne measurements of transmitted and reflected shortwave spectral radiation
Samuel E LeBlanc1, Jens Redemann2, Philip B Russell2, Michal Segal-Rosenhaimer3, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen3, Yohei Shinozuka3, Connor Joseph Flynn4, Beat Schmid4, Sebastian Schmidt5, Peter Pilewskie5 and Shi Song5, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, ORAU, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)BAERI/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Cloud Base Height Measurements at Manila Observatory: Initial Results from Constructed Paired Sky Imaging Cameras
Francis Tan1, Carlo Ting Antioquia1 and Nofel Lagrosas2, (1)Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, (2)Ateneo de Manila University, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines
 
Tropical and Midlatitude Cirrus Cloud Extinction and Backscatter From Multiyear Raman Lidar Measurements.
Tyler James Thorsen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Qiang Fu, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Ground-Based Cloud and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Observations for the Project: High Definition Clouds and Precipitation for Advancing Climate Prediction, HD(CP)2
Anne Hirsikko1, Kerstin Ebell2, Ulrich Löhnert2, Jan H Schween2, Birger Bohn1, Ulrich Görsdorf3, Ronny Leinweber3, Eileen Päschke3, Holger Baars4, Patric Seifert4 and Henk Klein Baltink5, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (2)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (3)Deutscher Wetterdienst, Lindenberg, Germany, (4)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research - TROPOS, Leipzig, Germany, (5)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
 
Ground-based Nighttime Cloud Detection Using a Commercial Digital Camera: Observations at Manila Observatory (14.64N, 121.07E)
Glenn Franco Barroso Gacal1, Francis Tan1, Carlo Ting Antioquia1 and Nofel Lagrosas2, (1)Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, (2)Ateneo de Manila University, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines
 
350 Year Cloud Reconstruction Deduced from Northeast Caribbean Coral Proxies
Amos Winter1, Paul W Sammarco2, Uwe Mikolajewicz3, Mark Jury1 and David Zanchettin3, (1)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (2)Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
 
Cloud Occurrence Measurements Over Sea during the 2nd 7 Southeast Asian Studies (7SEAS) Field Campaign in Palawan Archipelago
Carlo Ting Antioquia1, Sherdon Niño Uy2, Kevin Caballa2 and Nofel Lagrosas3, (1)Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, (2)Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines, (3)Ateneo de Manila University, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines
 
Intercomparison of Ground-Based Cloud Retrieval Algorithms
Chuanfeng Zhao, Qianqian Wang and Min Lv, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
 
A Comparative Study of Cloud Observation between Instrumental Measurements and Visual Observations
Young-san Park, Jin-Yim Jeong, Dong Oh Park, Jae Jun Kang and Byoung-Choel Choi, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seogwipo-si, South Korea
 
A NEW SITE AT CENTRAL AMAZONIA DEDICATED TO LONG TERM CLOUD PROPERTIES OBSERVATIONS – DESCRIPTION, FIRST RESULTS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES.
Theotonio Pauliquevis1, Henrique M Barbosa2, David K Adams3, Paulo Artaxo4, Glauber G. Cirino5, Boris Barja Gonzalez6, Alexandre L Correia4, Helber Barros Gomes1, Diego ALVES Gouveia7, Marcelo Banik Padua8, Nilton Manuel Evora Do Rosario1, Rodrigo Augusto Ferreira de Souza6, Rosa M Nascimento dos Santos9, Luiz Sapucci8 and Bruno T Portela5, (1)Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Diadema, Brazil, (2)University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, United States, (3)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (4)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (5)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (6)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (8)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (9)Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
 
Stereo Cloud Height and Wind Determination Using Measurements from a Single Focal Plane
Robert Demajistre and Michael A Kelly, JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Trends and uncertainties in U.S. cloud cover from weather stations and satellite data
Melissa Purdy Free1, Bomin Sun2 and Hye Lim Yoo1, (1)NOAA, College Park, MD, United States, (2)IMSG, College Park, MD, United States
 
Using the Lens of Uncertainty in Cloud Data Records
Brent C Maddux, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States and Steven A Ackerman, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
Effect of Cloud Observations and Uncertainties on Solar Irradiance Very-Short-Term Forecast
Hugo T. Carreira Pedro and Carlos F Coimbra, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
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