A51A:
A-Train Constellation: 10 Years of Multiplatform Scientific Achievements II Posters

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Session ID#: 13334

Session Description:
The A-Train recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. This session will highlight how Earth science has benefitted from the long and growing multi-sensor data records to better understand Earth’s changing environment and climate. The session will highlight science advances that have resulted through the combination of measurements from the A-Train in understanding many complex and connected processes in the atmosphere, ocean and land. The unprecedented and extensive collection of multi-year, multi-satellite observations continues to provide a unique resource for improving and validating climate and weather models and enables longer-term scientific studies, including analyses of inter-annual variability and long-term trends.

The Session will entertain presentations on

· Atmospheric composition and chemistry,

· Aerosols, clouds, radiation, and the hydrological cycle,

· Atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial components of the carbon cycle,

· Weather and other operational applications,

and will give preference to studies that emphasize cross-disciplinary science advances realized through the A-Train multi-sensor system.

Primary Convener:  Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David M Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Deborah G Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  David M Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Deborah G Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The three-dimensional distribution of cloud liquid water observed by the A-Train (119942)
Jussi S. Leinonen, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland, Matthew D Lebsock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Graeme L Stephens, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Process-oriented Observational Metrics for CMIP6 Climate Model Assessments (124279)
Jonathan H. Jiang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Hui Su, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Horizontal distribution of mixed cloud type scene (125687)
Alexandre Guillaume1, Brian H Kahn2, Qing Yue3, Sun Wong2, Gerald Manipon2, Hook Hua2, Brian D Wilson4, Tao Wang5 and Eric J Fetzer2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Observations of snow and sea ice cover in Arctic from CALIOP lidar measurements (134372)
Xiaomei Lu1,2, Yongxiang Hu1, Zhaoyan Liu3, Sharon D Rodier3, Mark Vaughan2,4, Patricia Lucker2 and Charles R Trepte1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
Cloud Vertical Structure variability within MODIS Cloud Regimes according to CloudSat-CALIPSO (149149)
Nayeong Cho, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Dongmin Lee, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Evaluating the MODIS multilayer cloud classification product through comparisons with CALIOP (174899)
Benjamin Marchant1,2, Steven E Platnick1, Kerry Meyer2 and Galina Wind3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Catch the A-Train from the NASA GIBS/Worldview Platform (157676)
Jeffrey E Schmaltz1, Christian Alarcon2, Katie Baynes3, Ryan A Boller4, Matthew F Cechini5, Cristina De Cesare2, Alexander P De Luca5, Taylor Gunnoe5, Benjamin Adam King5, Jerome King5, Natalie N Pressley5, Joe T Roberts6, Joshua Rodriguez2, Charles K Thompson2 and Min Minnie Wong5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Data Systems, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
A-Train Education Activities: Partnerships to Engage Citizens with Atmospheric Science (162998)
Todd D Ellis, Western Michigan University, Mallinson Institute for Science Education, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Jessica Taylor, NASA Langley, Newport News, United States, Lin H Chambers, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Steven Graham, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Ginger Butcher, Sigma Space Corporation, Lanham, MD, United States
Aerosol radiative forcing depending on the vertical stratification of aerosols and clouds (164787)
Eiji Oikawa1, Kentaroh Suzuki2, Teruyuki Nakajima3 and Tomoaki Nishizawa1, (1)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (3)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan
CloudSat Level 3 Gridded Products: Introduction and Application to Evaluation of the MERRA-2 Reanalysis (168066)
John M Haynes, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Steven D Miller, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States and Philip Partain, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States
A 3D Ice Cloud Climatology of the Upper Troposphere from 10+ years of CALIOP Observations (177187)
Xia Cai1, David M Winker2, Melody A Avery2, Mark Vaughan3, Charles R Trepte2 and Patricia Lucker1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States

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