A42A
Advances in Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Characterization II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3002 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Olga Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, John E Yorks, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Felix C Seidel, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and John E Yorks, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  John E Yorks, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:20
The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS): Demonstrating New Techniques for Cloud and Aerosol Measurements (Invited) (83974)
Matthew J McGill1, John E Yorks1, Stephen P Palm2, Dennis L Hlavka3, Edward P Nowottnick1 and Patrick A Selmer4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Lanham, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:35
Information Content and Sensitivity of the 3β+2α Lidar Measurement System for Microphysical Retrievals (79717)
Sharon P Burton1, Xu Liu1, Eduard Chemyakin2, Chris A Hostetler1, Snorre Stamnes1, Richard Moore1, Patricia Sawamura1, Richard Anthony Ferrare1 and Kirk D Knobelspiesse3, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
10:50
Optimal Estimation Retrievals of Aerosol Microphysical Properties from High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) and Polarimeter Data (79563)
Xu Liu1, Richard Anthony Ferrare1, Chris A Hostetler1, Sharon P Burton1, Snorre Stamnes1, Detlef Mueller2, Eduard Chemyakin3, Patricia Sawamura1 and Brian Cairns4, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
11:05
Determination of Cloud Thermodynamic Phase with Ground Based, Polarimetrically Sensitive, Passive Sky Radiometers (Invited) (62940)
Kirk D Knobelspiesse1, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven2, Alexander Marshak3, Stephen E Dunagan1, Brent N Holben3 and Ilya Slutsker4, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
11:20
Reconstruction of 3D Shapes of Opaque Cumulus Clouds from Airborne Multiangle Imaging: A Proof-of-Concept (67516)
Anthony B Davis, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Guillaume Bal, Columbia University, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States and Jiaming Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Applied Mathematics, Troy, NY, United States
11:35
Inference of Ice Cloud Particle Roughness in Optically Thin Clouds using Satellite Polarimetric Observations (70153)
Souichiro Hioki1, Ping Yang1, Bryan A Baum2, Steven E Platnick3, Kerry Meyer4, Michael D King5 and Jérôme Riedi6, (1)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (Lille), Villeneuve, France
11:50
Remote Sensing of Cloud Layer Heights using the Research Scanning Polarimeter (83567)
Kenneth Sinclair, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Brian Cairns, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States and John E Yorks, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
12:05
Implications of using transmitted vs. reflected light for determining cloud properties, cloud radiative effects and aerosol-cloud-interactions (85248)
Samuel E LeBlanc1,2, Jens Redemann1, Michal Segal-Rosenhaimer1,3, Meloe S Kacenelenbogen1,3, Yohei Shinozuka1,3, Connor Joseph Flynn4, Sebastian Schmidt5, Peter Pilewskie5, Shi Song5, Sarah Woods6, Paul Lawson6, Athanasios Nenes7, Jack J Lin8 and Luke D Ziemba9, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Sonoma, Sonoma, CA, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (8)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (9)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
 
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