Evaluating Cloud and Precipitation Processes in Numerical Models using Current and Potential Future Satellite Missions

Susan C van den Heever1, Wei-Kuo Tao2, Gail Skofronick Jackson3, Simone Tanelli4, Tristan S L'Ecuyer5, Walter Arthur Petersen2 and Christian Kummerow1, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States