Implications of using transmitted vs. reflected light for determining cloud properties, cloud radiative effects and aerosol-cloud-interactions

Samuel E LeBlanc1,2, Jens Redemann3, Michal Segal-Rozenhaimer4,5, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen5,6, Yohei Shinozuka5,6, Connor Joseph Flynn7, Sebastian Schmidt8, Peter Pilewskie9, Shi Song10, Sarah Woods11, Paul Lawson12, Athanasios Nenes13, Jack J Lin14 and Luke D Ziemba15, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (5)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (8)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)SPEC Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (12)SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, (14)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (15)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States