89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 8: Satelite Studies and Lidar Observations - I

Thursday, 15 January 2009: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chairs:  M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton University
Cochairs:  Sebastien Berthier, SSEC ( Space Science and Engineering Center) / University of Wisconsin
Papers:
  8:30 AM
8.1
  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

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~robwood/papers/duli/Chand_etal_NGS-2008-07-00763_MS_revised.pdf

  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