A24A:
A Spectral View of Aerosols, Clouds, and Earth's Energy Budget: From Model Evaluation to Process Studies and Planning Climate Change Observations II


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Session ID#: 58127

Session Description:
Spectral signatures of aerosols and clouds impacting on radiation serve as the foundation for satellite remote sensing of aerosol and cloud properties. However, it remains unclear the extent to which the long-term change of aerosol, clouds, their interactions, and their impacts on Earth energy budget can be modeled, observed, and detected from a spectral point of view. This session seeks investigations of the utility of spectral information in understanding long-term change of aerosol and cloud properties using modeled results, ground-base and satellite observations.  Of equal interest are also the studies in the spectral domain that seek to characterize the spectral signature and fingerprints manifesting the underlying processes of aerosols, clouds, and their interactions. Finally, this session seeks presentations that address innovative approaches to planning and prioritizing future climate change observations including those reaching beyond spectral observations of aerosols and clouds.
Primary Convener:  Bruce A Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, Yi Ming, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States and Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bruce A Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Chairs:  Bruce A Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Steven E Platnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States
Index Terms:

0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Spectrum: an underutilized dimension in climate observations and model diagnostics (Invited) (350466)
Prof. Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Advances in Remote Sensing and Climate Monitoring from Shortwave Hyperspectral Observations (Invited) (350249)
Peter Pilewskie, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Sebastian Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Odele Coddington, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Erik C Richard, LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
A pilot study of shortwave spectral fingerprints of smoke aerosols above liquid clouds (349151)
Jun Wang, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, Xiaoguang Xu, University of Iowa, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States, Jing Zeng, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States and Eric M Wilcox, Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, United States
Earth’s spectral and textural trends as observed from Terra (465253)
Yizhe Zhan1, Larry Di Girolamo2 and Guangyu Zhao1, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
Detection and Mitigation of Inhomogeneity Biases in Cloud Optical Properties and Radiative Effects From Their Spectral Signature (411985)
Sebastian Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Graham Feingold, NOAA CSL, Boulder, United States and Takanobu Yamaguchi, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Laboratory / CIRES University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Band-by-band contributions to the longwave cloud radiative feedbacks in the Arctic (357139)
Xiuhong Chen, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Prof. Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Qing Yue, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Toward Quantifying the Science Benefit of Spaceborne Aerosol-Cloud-Ocean Lidar for Climate Science (Invited) (447534)
Chris A Hostetler1, David M Winker1, Tyler Thorsen1, Richard Anthony Ferrare1 and Johnathan W Hair2, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States

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