Determination of Cloud Thermodynamic Phase with Ground Based, Polarimetrically Sensitive, Passive Sky Radiometers

Kirk D Knobelspiesse1, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven2, Alexander Marshak3, Stephen E Dunagan4, Brent Holben3 and Ilya Slutsker5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States