Improvements to the CATS Cloud-Aerosol Data Products and Implications for the Space-Based Lidar Data Record

John E Yorks1, Matthew J McGill2, Edward P Nowottnick3, Stephen P Palm4, Dennis L Hlavka5, Patrick A Selmer6, Sharon D Rodier7, Mark Vaughan8 and Rebecca Pauly5, (1)Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (6)SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (7)RSES: ADNET Systems, Inc., Hampton, United States, (8)NASA, Hampton, VA, United States