An Exploration of 3-D Radiative Effects on Polarimetric Cloud Microphysical Retrievals: Results from idealized case studies and an LES satellite simulator

Daniel J Miller, University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR Associate Research Scientist, Baltimore, 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, Andrew S Ackerman, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States and Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States