Session 10 Remote Sensing II: Active and Multi-Instrument/Platform

Thursday, 1 July 2010: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Pacific Northwest Ballroom (DoubleTree by Hilton Portland)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation
Chair:
P. Pilewskie, Univ. of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO

Papers:
10:30 AM
10.1
The effect of cloud forward scattering on the ICESat surface altimetry measurements
Alexander Marshak, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Yang, S. P. Palm, and W. J. Wiscombe
10:45 AM
10.2
Cloud statistics and cloud radiative effect for a low-mountain site
Kerstin Ebell, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and S. Crewell, U. Löhnert, D. D. Turner, and E. J. O'Connor
11:00 AM
10.3
Remote sensing of cloud thermodynamic phase from the A-Train : Intercomparison of passive and active sensors retrievals for the establishment of a reference joint dataset
Shan Zeng, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; and J. Riedi, F. Parol, S. Platnick, C. Cornet, and F. Thieuleux
11:15 AM
10.4
Comparison of space-based cloud property retrievals with ground-based observations and climate model simulations in West Africa
Jan Fokke Meirink, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and H. Deneke, W. Greuell, R. Roebeling, E. Van Meijgaard, and M. A. Miller
11:30 AM
10.5
Global cirrus cloud properties from CloudSat 2C-ICE product
Min Deng, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and G. G. Mace, Z. Wang, and H. Okamoto
11:45 AM
10.6
Simulating the measurement with 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer
Tobias Zinner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany; and C. Emde, R. Buras, L. Bugliaro, F. Faure, and B. Mayer
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