Comparative evaluation of polarimetric and bi-spectral cloud microphysics retrievals: Retrieval closure experiments and comparisons based on idealized and LES case studies

Daniel J Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, Andrew S Ackerman, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Céline Cornet, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France