Ocean Lidar Profile Results during the Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research Experiment and the North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study: Validation and Comparison with Ship, Floats, and Satellite

Amy Jo Scarino1, Johnathan W Hair2, Chris A Hostetler2, Carolyn F Butler1, David B Harper2, Anthony L Cook2, Timothy Berkoff2, Joseph Lee2, Richard J Hare2, Taylor J Shingler1, Yongxiang Hu2, Michael Behrenfeld3, Jennifer Schulien3, Toby Westberry3, Emmanuel Boss4, David Siegel5, Norman Nelson5, James Allen5, Ivona Cetinic6, Michael Twardowski7, Wayne H Slade8 and Peter Gaube9, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Ft. Pierce, FL, United States, (8)Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Bellevue, WA, United States, (9)Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, Air-Sea Interaction and Remote Sensing, Seattle, WA, United States