A34G:
Lidar Investigations of Greenhouse Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds II


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Session ID#: 58424

Session Description:
To better predict future trends in climate change, there is a need to measure and understand the temporal and spatial variability of greenhouse gases, aerosols, and clouds on local, regional, and global scales. New laser remote sensing (lidar) techniques have been developed for ground-based, airborne, and space-based platforms for making measurements of greenhouse gases, including CO2, CH4, N2O, H2O and O3, and aerosol and cloud distributions and properties. We solicit papers on the development and demonstration of lidar techniques for making measurements of these key climate variables and their application in conducting climate-related investigations on local-to-global scales.  Papers are also solicited on modeling the performance and impact of future lidar systems for making measurements to improve our understanding of important climate variables.
Primary Convener:  James B. Abshire, NASA Goddard/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
Conveners:  Gerhard Ehret, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Richard Anthony Ferrare, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Chikao Nagasawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  James B. Abshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Gerhard Ehret, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Richard Anthony Ferrare, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Richard Anthony Ferrare, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Index Terms:

0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

CoMet: An airborne mission to simultaneously measure CO2 and CH4 using lidar, passive remote sensing and in-situ techniques (Invited) (361934)
Andreas Fix1, Axel Amediek1, Christian Büdenbender2, Gerhard Ehret1, Christoph Kiemle1, Mathieu Quatrevalet3, Markus Rapp4, Martin Wirth4, Heinrich Bovensmann5, Andre Butz6, Christoph Gerbig7, Akihiko Kuze8, Patrick Joeckel9, Julia Marshall7, Jaroslaw M. Necki10, Klaus Pfeilsticker11, Anke Roiger1, Justyna Swolkień12, Martin Zöger13 and The CoMet team, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (5)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (6)Heidelberg University, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, (7)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Signals, Jena, Germany, (8)GoRadS, INC., Tokyo, Japan, (9)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (10)AGH University of Krakow, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Krakow, Poland, (11)Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Umweltphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, (12)AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering, Kraków, Poland, (13)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Flight Experiments, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Measuring Carbon Dioxide from Space Using Lidar: An Update from the NASA ASCENDS Science Definition Team (413417)
Stephan R Kawa, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and ASCENDS Ad Hoc Science Definition Team
Diurnal Variation of Atmospheric CO2 in the Boundary Layer by Three-wavelength 1.6 μm CO2-DIAL (388197)
Yasukuni Shibata, Chikao Nagasawa and Makoto Abo, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
First Application of the Raman Lidar Technique for Remote Sensing of Surface Two Dimensional of CO2 VMRs (358773)
Daewon Kim1, Hanlim Lee2, Junsung Park3, Hyeongwoo Kang1, Hyunkee Hong4, Seong-Taek Yun5 and Seong-Chun Jun6, (1)Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Pukyong National University, Division of Earth Environmental System Science, Major of Spatial Information Engineering, Busan, South Korea, (3)Pukyong National University, Busan, United States, (4)National Institute of Environmental Research, Environmental Satellite Center, Incheon, South Korea, (5)Korea University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences & K-COSEM Research Center, Seoul, South Korea, (6)GeoGreen21 Co., Ltd., Seoul, South Korea
Second generation airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL-2) measurements and retrievals of aerosol during the ORACLES field mission (Invited) (413505)
Sharon P Burton1, Marta A Fenn2, Snorre Stamnes3, Xu Liu1, Richard Anthony Ferrare1, Anthony L Cook1, David B Harper3, Eduard Chemyakin4, Johnathan W Hair1 and Chris A Hostetler1, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Coherent Applications, Inc. -Psionic, LLC, Hampton, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, United States
Near Zenith Variation of the Lidar Ratio--High Spectral Resolution Lidar Observations of Oriented Ice Crystals (396509)
Edwin W Eloranta1, Ilya Razenkov1 and Joe Garcia2, (1)Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Aerosol vertical distribution observed by both CALIPSO and CATS (422253)
Qian Tan1, Hongbin Yu2, Zhibo Zhang3 and Mian Chin2, (1)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States

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