Session 8 |
| | Satelite Studies and Lidar Observations - I |
| | CoChair: Sebastien Berthier, SSEC ( Space Science and Engineering Center) / University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Chair: M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton University, Hampton, VA
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| 8:30 AM | 8.1 | Retrieving optical depths for optically thick clouds from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on board ICESat 
Alexander Marshak, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Yang, J. Y. C. Chiu, and W. J. Wiscombe |
| 9:00 AM | 8.2 | Direct radiative effect of aerosols over clouds and clear skies determined using CALIPSO and the A-Train 
Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Chand and T. Anderson |
| 9:15 AM | 8.3 | African Dust and Smoke Influences on Radiative Effects in the Tropical Atlantic Using CERES and CALIOP Data
John E. Yorks, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. McGill, S. Rodier, M. Vaughan, Y. Hu, and D. L. Hlavka |
| 9:30 AM | 8.4 | Properties of thin clouds observed by ICESat and CALIPSO over ice sheets and their impact on ice altimetry measurements
Yuekui Yang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Marshak, T. Varnai, and W. Wiscombe |