Chairs: Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Penn State, University Park, PA, United States and Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 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: Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Comparing Cirrus Cloud Formation and Evolution Using in Situ Aircraft Observations and a Cloud Resolving Model
Minghui Diao1,2, Jorgen B Jensen2, George H Bryan3, Hugh Morrison4 and Daniel P Stern5, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Advanced Study Program (ASP), Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR Researc Aviation Facility, Broomfield, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Analyses of Semi-transparent Cirrus Clouds Using Combined Retrievals of CALIPSO Radiometer and Lidar Measurements
Anne Garnier1, Mark Vaughan2, Jacques Robert Pelon3, David M Winker4, Charles R Trepte4 and Philippe Dubuisson5, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)CNRS, Paris, France, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)Lab. d'Optique Atmosphérique, Villeneuve D'Ascq, France
Building a 15-Year Cloud Climatology using Lidar in Space Observations: CALIOP and CloudSat now, EarthCARE next.
Mathieu Reverdy1, Hélène Chepfer2, David P Donovan3, Vincent Noel4, Roger Marchand5, Grégory Cesana6, Christophe Hoareau7, Marjolaine Chiriaco8 and Sophie Bastin8, (1)Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (2)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (4)LMD, Palaiseau, France, (5)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (8)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
Comparing sources of variability in cloud-characterized HIRS radiances
Paul Staten1, Brian H Kahn1, Mathias M Schreier2 and Andrew K Heidinger3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States
CloudSat and Aura MLS Constrain upon Ice Cloud Particle Size Distribution
Luis F Millan Valle, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Nathaniel J Livesey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and William George Read, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
A Global Cloud Detection Approach for Geostationary Satellites
Qing Trepte1, Patrick Minnis2, Rabindra Palikonda1, J Kirk Ayers1, Baojuan Shan1 and Christopher R Yost1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Nasa Larc, Hampton, VA, United States
Quantifying the Climate-Scale Accuracy of Satellite Cloud Retrievals
Yolanda Roberts, NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, Bruce A Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Sunny Sun-Mack, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, Patrick Minnis, Nasa Larc, Hampton, VA, United States, Lusheng Liang, SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States and Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
MODIS Collection 6 Shortwave-Derived Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm and comparisons with CALIOP and POLDER
Benjamin Marchant1,2, Steven E Platnick1, Thomas Arnold1,3, Kerry Meyer1,2 and Jérôme Riedi4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France
Cirrus Cloud Radiative Characteristics from Continuous MPLNET Profiling at GSFC in 2012
Simone Lolli, NASA GSFC (JCET-UMBC), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jasper R Lewis, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, James R Campbell, Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, Ellsworth Judd Welton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yu Gu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Cloud vertical structure and the impact of MODIS liquid water path retrieval assumptions: Developing a theoretical framework and evaluating retrievals using large-eddy simulations
Daniel J Miller, University of MD Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Andrew S Ackerman, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States