Estimating vertical profiles of water-cloud droplet effective radius from SWIR satellite measurements via a statistical model derived from CloudSat observations

Takashi M. Nagao, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Hiroshi Murakami, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan and Takashi Y. Nakajima, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan