A44A:
Advances in Active, Spectral, and Polarimetric Remote Sensing and Retrieval Techniques for Characterization of the Atmosphere and Ocean I

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Session ID#: 15195

Session Description:
Innovative instruments – such as high spectral resolution, multi-wavelength lidars and multiangle, multi-wavelength polarimeters – and improved algorithms are needed to reduce uncertainties in aerosol-cloud interactions and climate forcing studies. Knowledge of aerosol and cloud properties is also needed for atmospheric correction to ensure precise land and ocean surface characterization. Several advanced remote sensing instruments have been developed and deployed in recent field campaigns, including SEAC4RS, SABOR, NAAMES and ORACLES. Several new instruments are planned on future satellite missions, such as MAIA, HARP, PACE, 3MI and EarthCare. The goal of this session is to assemble expertise in radiative transfer theory, state-of-the-art instrumentation, and data applications to showcase recent advances in the observation of aerosol and cloud properties and atmospheric correction approaches. Papers on new sensor concepts, microphysical and optical modeling, remote sensing theory, observations and data analysis from airborne and satellite instruments are invited.
Primary Convener:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Olga V. Kalashnikova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Olga V. Kalashnikova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Kirk D Knobelspiesse, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Multistatic aerosol–cloud lidar in space: A theoretical perspective (Invited) (122284)
Michael I Mishchenko1, Mikhail D Alexandrov2, Cairns Brian1 and Larry D Travis1, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, New York, United States
Advancing Atmosphere-Ocean Remote Sensing with Spaceborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (Invited) (144924)
Chris A Hostetler1, Michael Behrenfeld2, Hélène Chepfer3, Yongxiang Hu1, Johnathan W Hair1, Charles R Trepte1, David M Winker1, Richard Anthony Ferrare1, Sharon P Burton1, Amy Jo Scarino4, Kathleen A Powell5 and Joël Michaud6, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, United States, (3)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (6)Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France
Ocean-atmosphere science from the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission (131004)
Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Recent Upgrades to the Dark Water MISR Research Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm and Potential Implications for the Aerosol/Ocean Color Community (157735)
James Limbacher, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Ralph A Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Preethi Manoharan, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
The Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) Instrument, the Satellite-Based Element of an Investigation to Benefit Public Health (154132)
David J Diner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
First results of the SPEX airborne multi-angle spectropolarimeter – aerosol retrievals over ocean and intercomparison with AirMSPI (156333)
Martijn Smit1, Jeroen Rietjens1, Otto P. P Hasekamp1, Antonio Di Noia2, Gerard van Harten3, Brian E Rheingans4, David J Diner3, Felix C Seidel4 and Olga V. Kalashnikova4, (1)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, Netherlands, (2)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Multisensor Analysis of Ice Crystals Backscatter Peak From 5 Years of Collocated POLDER, MODIS and CALIOP Observations. (188244)
Jérôme Riedi1, Laurent C.-Labonnote2, Fabien Contaut2, Steven E Platnick3 and Ping Yang4, (1)Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518 - LOA - Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Lille, France, (2)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, TX, United States
Cloud properties retrieved from the OCO-2 A-band spectrometer (160386)
Mark Richardson1, James McDuffie2, Anthony B Davis3, Heather Q Cronk4, Thomas Taylor5 and Graeme L Stephens2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States

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