| Session 5 | 
|  | Remote Sensing of Aerosols | 
|  | Organizer: Philip Russell, NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 
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|  | 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Estimations of forest fire smoke forcing from surface measurements, satellite data, and trajectory modeling   Stephen J. Cox, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, B. A. Baum, R. B. Pierce, V. L. Harvey, M. Chiacchio, and J. C. Mikovitz
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|  | 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Aerosol optical depth retrieval over land from the AVHRR pathfinder atmosphere data set   Kenneth R. Knapp, CIRA and NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD
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|  | 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Statistical Patterns in Aerosol Retrievals From NOAA/AVHRR and TRMM/VIRS   Alexander Ignatov, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and I. Laszlo and N. Nalli
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|  | 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Towards a multisatellite climatology of aerosol amount and size Igor V Geogdzhayev, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY; and M. Mishchenko
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|  | 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Aerosol Type Classification with SeaWiFS four-channel radiance data   Akiko Higurashi, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan; and Teruyuki Nakajima, Center for Climate System Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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|  | 9:45 AM | 5.6 | Identifying the spectral radiative signature of mineral dust: implications for remote sensing in the IR region Irina N. Sokolik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and N. S. Pougatchev, W. L. Smith, and D. Zhou
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