Impact of spatial resolution on cirrus infrared satellite retrievals in the presence of cloud heterogeneity

Thomas Fauchez, USRA / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kerry Meyer, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Céline Cornet, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, Frédéric Szczap, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Univ. Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6016, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Philippe Dubuisson, Lab. d'Optique Atmosphérique, Villeneuve D'Ascq, France