A11I:
Cloud Properties, Processes, and Uncertainties: Observations and Analysis I Posters


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Session ID#: 46096

Session Description:
Clouds play a significant role in the weather and climate systems, and their representation in models remains one of the largest uncertainties for weather and climate predictions. Long-term cloud observations with accurate uncertainty estimates are highly demanded, along with better understanding of cloud processes.

Cloud macro- and micro- physical properties are observed using space- and ground-based remote sensors, and in-situ aircraft probes. Studies have shown large systematic differences of cloud properties from various observations. It is crucial to understand the cloud properties and their uncertainties. With the help of observations and model simulations, understanding of cloud processes can be improved.

This session invites papers on cloud properties, uncertainties and cloud processes. The related topics include but not limited to 1) cloud observations and retrievals; 2) cloud property analyses; 3) cloud uncertainty quantification; 4) cloud and precipitation processes and their parameterization in models; 5)  weather and climate impacts of clouds.

Primary Convener:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Letu Husi, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, The Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Xiquan Dong, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiquan Dong, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
Chairs:  Letu Husi, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, The Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Xiquan Dong, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Letu Husi, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, The Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Index Terms:

0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Analysis of Convective Aggregation and its Indices from CERES Cloud Object Data (450042)
Kuan-Man Xu1, Yongxiang Hu1, Takmeng Wong1 and Zhujun Li2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States
An Investigation of aerosol, warm and mixed phase clouds overlapped by cirrus over the Southeast Asia Region (449774)
Yulan Hong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States, Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States and Jeffrey S. Reid, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, United States
Retrieval of multilayer cloud properties based on VIIRS observations (387804)
Chao Liu1, Shiwen Teng2, Jianjie Wang2 and Yuk L Yung3, (1)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China, (3)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
A 38 year record of UV cloud albedo from SBUV, TOMS and OMPS instruments: inter-satellite calibration, trends and response in cloudiness during El Nino events (450375)
Clark j Weaver1, Dong Liang Wu2, Pawan K Bhartia1 and Gordon J Labow1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
An Assessment of Cloud Morphology Classification to Identify Boundary Layer Regimes in the Subtropical Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Region (443553)
Johannes Mohrmann, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Robert Wood, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States, Isabel McCoy, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Virendra P Ghate, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Assessment and Improvement of the Cloud Emission and Scatter Index (CESI) – an Algorithm for Cirrus Detection (372489)
Liwen Wang, Nanjing, China, Youfei Zheng, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China and Miao Tian, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Assessment of Cloud-Top Height and Cloud Optical Thickness Retrievals from Geostationary Orbit over South China Sea (389921)
Chian-Yi Liu, Chi-Hao Chiu and Gin-Rong Liu Sr, National Central University (Taiwan), Taoyuan, Taiwan
Assessment of Newly Built Resolution-Corrected MISR Cloud Fraction Product (372073)
Soumi Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States, Sagnik Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, New Delhi, India and Yizhe Zhan, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Cloud Adiabaticity and its Relationship to Marine Stratocumulus Characteristics over the Northeast Pacific Ocean (372527)
Rachel Anne Anne Braun1, Hossein Dadashazar2, Alexander Bruce MacDonald2, Ewan Crosbie3,4, Haflidi Jonsson5, Roy Woods6, Richard C Flagan7, John Seinfeld7 and Armin Sorooshian2,8, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States, (5)Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States, (6)Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Cloud Base Height Retrieval from a Ground Based Thermal-Infrared All-Sky Imager (405918)
Guillaume Roussel, Olivier Liandrat, Louis-Etienne Boudreault, Sylvain Cros and Frederik Kurzrock, Reuniwatt, Sainte-Clotilde, Reunion
Droplet Clustering in Shallow Cumuli: The Effects of In-Cloud Location and Aerosol Number Concentration. (417543)
Dillon Scott Dodson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Jennifer D. Small Griswold, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States
Evaluating Retrieval Algorithm Climate Stability: Toward Obtaining Large-scale 3D Optical Depth Bias Distributions by Cloud Type (396456)
Yolanda Shea, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Lusheng Liang, ADNET Systems Inc., Lanham, United States, Larry Di Girolamo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, Seung-Hee Ham, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc., Hampton, United States and Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States
Evaluating the MODIS C6 multilayer cloud detection and phase algorithms through comparisons with CALIOP and CloudSat (440895)
Benjamin Marchant1,2, Steven E Platnick1, Kerry Meyer3 and Galina Wind4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Evaluation of CERES-MODIS Ed4 Cloud Macrophysical Properties using 11-yr ARM Ground-based Observations over the Arctic. (413537)
Shaoyue Qiu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Baike Xi, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Xiquan Dong, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States, William L Smith Jr, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States and Sunny Sun-Mack, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States
First Investigations of Drizzling Boundary Layer Cloud Properties with OCO-2 A-band Retrievals (399147)
Mark Richardson1, Heather Q Cronk2, Jussi S. Leinonen3, James McDuffie4, Matthew D Lebsock5 and Graeme L Stephens5, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
How often do we have multilayer clouds in the Arctic? Classification of multilayer clouds in Ny-Alesund using an one-year dataset of radiosonde and radar data. (383503)
Luisa Ickes1, Maiken Vassel2, Marion Maturilli3 and Corinna Hoose2, (1)Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Improved retrieval of cloud base heights from ceilometer using a nonstandard instrument method (365507)
Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Yang Wang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Introduction of the CALIOP Level 3 3-dimensional Cloud Occurrence Product (345072)
Xia Cai1, David M Winker2, Mark Vaughan3, Brian Magill4, Brian J Getzewich2, Charles R Trepte2 and Patricia Lucker1, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, United States
Observations of Cloud Heterogeneity by MISR in the Marine Midlatitudes and Related Errors in GCMs (445743)
Roger Davies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand and Jesse Loveridge, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
Remote sensing climatology of thin cloud distribution in the Mid-Latitude, and Polar region. (419814)
Kafayat Olayinka, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States
Southern Ocean Cloud and Precipitation Microphysical Properties from Airborne Millimeter-Wavelength Radar, Satellites, and In-Situ Measurements during the SOCRATES Campaign (420385)
Litai Kang, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, Roger Marchand, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, United States and the Southern Ocean Cloud Radiation Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES) team
Uncertainties in cloud amount estimations with joint CloudSat-CALIPSO mission (430323)
Andrzej Zbigniew Kotarba, Centrum Badan Kosmicznych, Warszawa, Poland

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