RADIATION PROCESSES

IN THE ATMOSPHERE

AND OCEAN (IRS2012)Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium (IRC/IAMAS)

Dahlem Cube, Free University, Berlin 6-10 August 2012

EDITORS

Robert F. CahalanNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

Jurgen FischerFree University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

All papers have been peer reviewed.

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

Free University of BerlinKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Leibniz Institute of Tropospheric Research (IFT)German Aerospace Center (DLR)European Space Agency (ESA)German Weather Service (DWD)European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)

AIPI PublishingMelville, New York, 2013

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AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1531RADIATION PROCESSES IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN (IRS2012)

Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium (IRC/IAMAS)

Table of Contents

Preface: Radiation Processes in the Atmosphere and Ocean

Robert F. Cahalan

Acknowledgments 7

PLENARY SESSION

UNION - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CURRENT TOPICS IN RADIATION

PROCESSES IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN

Conveners: R. F. Cahalan, W. Schmutz, B. J. Sohn, and J. Fischer

125 years of radiative transfer: Enduring triumphs and persisting misconceptionsMichael I. Mishchenko 11

Active remote sensing of cloud microphysicsHaj ime Okamoto 19

MIPAS: 10 years of spectroscopic measurements for investigating atmospheric

compositionHerbert Fischer 23

Status of high spectral resolution IR for advancing atmospheric state characterizationand climate trend benchmarking: A period of both opportunity realizedand squandered

Henry Revercomb, Fred Best, Robert Knuteson, David Tobin, Joe Taylor, and Jon Gero 27

Growing up MODIS: Towards a mature aerosol climate data recordRobert C.Levy 31

Radiative transfer and regional climate changeKuo-Nan Liou 35

Ocean optics: The next frontier

George W. Kattawar 39

PARALLEL SESSIONS

RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY AND MODELING

Conveners: B. Mayer, A. Marshak, andJ.-L. Widlowski

Oral Presentations

New approach for radiative transfer in sea ice and its application for sea ice satelliteremote sensing

E. P. Zege, A. V. Malinka, I. L. Katsev, A. S. Prikhach, and G. Heygster 43

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The line-by-line and polarized Monte Carlo atmospheric radiative transfer model

B. A. Fomin and V. A. Falaleeva 47

Hyperspectral retrieval of surface reflectances: A new scheme

Jean-Claude Thelen and Stephan Havemann 51

Accelerations of the discrete ordinate method for nadir viewing geometries

Dmitry Efremenko, Adrian Doicu, Diego Loyola, and Thomas Trautmann 55

The simulation of radar and coherent backscattering with the Monte Carlo model

MYSTIC

Christian Pause, Robert Buras, Claudia Emde, and Bemhard Mayer 59

The visibility of airborne volcanic ash from the flight deck of an aircraft - The effect

of clouds in the field of view

Daniel Saucr, JosefGasteiger, Claudia Emde, Robert Buras, Bernhard Mayer,and Bernadett Weinzierl 63

Results of processing airborne NASA and Russian cloud dataIrina Melnikova, Jefwa M. Genya, and Charles K. Gatebe 67

3D radiative processes in satellite measurements of aerosol propertiesTamas Varnai, Alexander Marshak, Weidong Yang, and Guoyong Wen 71

Assessment of cloud heterogeneities effects on brightness temperatures simulated with

a 3D Monte Carlo code in the thermal infrared

Thomas Fauchez, Celine Cornet, Frederic Szczap, and Philippe Dubuisson 75

Parametric 3D atmospheric reconstruction in highly variable terrain with recycledMonte Carlo paths and an adapted Bayesian inference engine

Ian Langmore, Anthony B. Davis, Guillaume Bal, and Youssef M. Marzouk 79

Remote sensing of particle size profiles from cloud sides: Observables and retrievals in

a 3D environment

Florian Ewald, Tobias Zinner, and Bernhard Mayer 83

Poster Presentations

Characterization of cloud microphysical parameters using airborne measurements bythe research scanning polarimeter

Mikhail D. Alexandrov, Brian Caims, Michael I. Mishchenko, Andrew S. Ackerman,and Claudia Emde 87

Solution of the radiative transfer equation by eliminating the anisotropic part withinthe method of synthetic iteration

Vladimir P. Budak and Oleg V. Shagalov 91

The phase matrix truncation impact on polarized radianceM. Compiegne, L. C-Labonnote, and P. Dubuisson 95

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Evaluation of cloud heterogeneity effects on total and polarized visible radiances asmeasured by POLDER/PARASOL and consequences for retrieved cloud properties

C. Cornet, F. Szczap, L. C.-Labonnote, T. Fauchez, F. Parol, F. Thieuleux, J. Riedi,P. Dubuisson, and N. Ferlay

Retrieval of volcanic ash and ice cloud physical properties together with gas:oncentration from IASI measurements using the AVL model

S. Kochenova, M. De Maziere, N. Kumps, S. Vandenbussche, and T. Kerzenmacher

Use of shadowband correction models for predicting direct solar irradianceM. C. Kotti, A. A. Argiriou, and A. Kazantzidis

Simulation of airborne radar observations of precipitating systems at various

frequency bandsValentin Louf, Olivier Pujol, and Jerome Riedi

Fast radiative transfer model to simulate spectroscopic measurements of outgoing IRradiances in cloudy conditions

Alexey Rublev and Anatoly Trotsenko

Intercomparison of three microwave/infrared high resolution line-by-line radiativetransfer codes

F. Schreier, S. Gimeno Garcia, M. Milz, A. Kottayil, M. Hopfher, T. von Clarmann,and G. Stiller

Py4CAtS - Python tools for line-by-line modelling of infrared atmospheric radiativetransfer

Franz Schreier and Sebastian Gimeno Garcia

Theory of weak spectral line formation within a plane-parallel atmosphere boundedfrom below by a reflecting underlying surface

Oleg I. Smokty

Analytical spatial-angular structure of polarized radiation fields in a uniform

atmospheric slab

Oleg I. Smokty

The mirror symmetry principle for radiation fields in a vertically non-uniform

atmospheric slab

Oleg I. Smokty

A 3D polarized Monte Carlo LIDAR system simulator for studying effects of cirrus

inhomogeneities on CALIOP/CALIPSO measurementsF. Szczap, C. Cornet, A. Alqassem, Y. Gour, L. C.-Labonnote, and O. Jourdan

The significance analysis of FY-2E split window data for "clear region" AMVs derivationZhenhui Wang, Yizhe Zhan, Zhiguo Zhang, and Lu Yang

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PARTICLE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES

Conveners: T. Aoki, P. Di Girolamo, and H. Ishimoto

Oral Presentations

Retrieval ofaerosol microstructure and radiative properties for moderate turbidityunder conditions of Western Siberia

Tatiana B. Zhuravleva, Tatiana V. Bedareva, and Mikhail A. Sviridenkov 147

Vertical resolved aerosol characterization during the GAMARF campaign: Aerosolsize distribution and radiative properties

Jose Luis Gomez-Amo, Daniela Meloni, Alcide di Sarra, Tatiana Di Iorio,Wolfgang Junkermann, Victor Estelles, Giandomenico Pace, and Jeroni Lorente 151

A novel, broadband spectroscopic method to measure the extinction coefficient ofaerosols in the near-ultraviolet

Eoin M. Wilson, Jun Chen, Ravi M. Varma, John C. Wenger, and Dean S. Venables 155

Aerosol characteristics at the Alpine site of Innsbruck, Austria

Sigrid Wurtke, Axel Kreuter, and Mario Blumthaler 159

Comparison of modeled optical properties of Saharan mineral dust aerosols withSAMUM lidar and photometer observations

Josef Gasteiger and Matthias Wiegner 163

A self-consistent high- and low-frequency scattering model for cirrus

Anthony J. Baran, Richard Cotton, Stephan Havemann, Laurent C.-Labonnote,and Franco Marenco 167

Does scattered radiation undergo bluing within clouds?I. Melnikova, T. Simakina, A. Vasilyev, C. Gatebe, and C. Varotsos 171

Poster Presentations

Numerical simulation of spectral albedos of glacier surfaces covered with glacialmicrobes in Northwestern Greenland

Teruo Aoki, Katsuyuki Kuchiki, Masashi Niwano, Sumito Matoba, Jun Uetake,Kazuhiko Masuda, and Hiroshi Ishimoto 176

Development of a quality control algorithm for analysis of SKYNET data and anestimation of the single scattering albedo

Makiko Hashimoto and Teruyuki Nakajima 180

Optical modeling of irregularly shaped ice particles in convective cirrusHiroshi Ishimoto, Kazuhiko Masuda, Yuzo Mano, Narihiro Orikasa,and Akihiro Uchiyama 184

Optimizing the ice crystal scattering database for the GCOM-C/SGLI satellite missionHusi Letu, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Takashi N. Matsui, and Yoshiaki Matsumae 188

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Synergetic retrieval of atmospheric aerosol from a combination of lidar andradiometer ground-based observations

Anton Lopatin, Oleg Dubovik, Anatoli Chaikovsky, Philippe Goloub, Didier Tanre,Pavel Litvinov, and Tatiana Lapyonok

Satellite study over Europe to estimate the single scattering albedo and the aerosol

optical depthE. Rodriguez, P. Kolmonen, A.-M. Sundstrom, L. Sogacheva, T. Virtanen,and G. de Leeuw

Detection and analyses of hydrometeor properties from EarthCARE data

Kaori Sato and Hajime Okamoto

Characterization of particle hygroscopicity by Raman lidar: Selected case studiesfrom the convective and orographically-induced precipitation study

Dario Stelitano, Paolo Di Girolamo, and Donato Summa

Characterization of PBL height and structure by Raman lidar: Selected case studies

from the convective and orographically-induced precipitation studyDonato Summa, Paolo Di Girolamo, and Dario Stelitano

GENERAL REMOTE SENSING

Conveners: A. Larar, B. J. Sohn, W. Smith, andJ. Schmetz

Oral Presentations

IASI/MetOp sounder contribution for atmospheric composition monitoring: 4-yearstudy of radiance data

C. Oudot, C. Clerbaux, J. Hadji Lazaro, M. George, S. Safieddine, L. Clarisse,D. Hurtmans, and P. Coheur

Retrieval of relative humidity profiles and its associated error from Megha-Tropiquesmeasurements

R. Sivira, H. Brogniez, C. Mallet, and Y. Oussar

Geophysical information from advanced Sounder InfraRed spectral radianceAllen M. Larar, Daniel K. Zhou, Xu Liu, and William L. Smith

The atmospheric and surface sounding from the Meteor satellite (numericalsimulation)

Alexander Polyakov, Yuriy Timofeyev, Vladimir Kostsov, Yana Virolainen,and Alexander Uspensky

Monitoring AVHRR-MODIS-VIIRS radiometric consistency using MICROS online

near-real time systemXingMing Liang, Alexander Ignatov, and Korak Saha

Characterization ofconvection-related parameters by Raman lidar: Selected case

studies from the convective and orographically-induced precipitation studyPaolo Di Girolamo, Donato Summa, and Dario Stelitano

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A new method for retrieving equivalent cloud base height and equivalent emissivity by

using ground-based high-resolution infrared radiance

LinJun Pan and DaRen Lu 236

General approach to the formulation and solution of the multi-parameter inverse

problems of atmospheric remote sensingVladimir Kostsov 240

Atmospheric profiling synthetic observation system (APSOS)Daren Lu and Weilin Pan 244

Inferences about pressures and vertical extension ofcloud layers from

POLDER3/PARASOL measurements in the oxygen A-band

Marine Desmons, Nicolas Ferlay, Frederic Parol, Claudine Vanbauce,and Linda Mcharek 248

Simultaneous multi-layer retrievals of ice and liquid water cloud properties usingpassive measurements

O. Sourdeval, L. C.-Labonnote, G. Brogniez, and A. J. Baran 252

Influence of surface albedo inhomogeneities on passive remote sensing of cirrus

propertiesClemens Fricke, Andre Ehrlich, Evelyn Jacket, Birger Bohn, Martin Wirth,and Manfred Wendisch 256

On the feasibility to combine observations from multiwavelength radar and the multi-

frequency radiometer ADMIRARI to retrieve precipitating cloud parametersPablo Saavedra Garfias, Alessandro Battaglia, Clemens Simmer, Manuel Vega,and V. Chandrasekar 260

Cloud retrieval using ship-based spectral transmissivity measurementsM. Brueckner, A. Macke, M. Wendisch, T. Kanitz, and B. Pospichal 264

Diagnosis and improvement of cloud parameterization schemes in NCEP/GFS usingmultiple satellite products

Hyelim Yoo and Zhanqing Li 268

Influence of sky radiance measurement errors on inversion-retrieved aerosol

propertiesB. Torres, C. Toledano, A. J. Berjon, 0. Dubovik, V. E. Cachorro, Y. S. Bennouna,D. Fuertes, R. Gonzalez, P. Goloub, T. Podvin, L. Blarel, and A. M. de Frutos 272

Possibilities for the retrieval of aerosol vertical profiles from space using hyperspectral radiance measurements in the oxygen absorption bands

Andre Hollstein and Florian Filipitsch 276

Correction of MODIS aerosol retrieval for 3D radiative effects in broken cloud fields

Guoyong Wen, Alexander Marshak, Lorraine Remer, Robert Levy, Norman Loeb,Tamas Varnai, and Robert F. Cahalan 280

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Aerosol climatology over Japan site measured by ground-based sky radiometer

Kazuma Aoki, Toshihiko Takemura, Kazuaki Kawamoto, and Tadahiro Hayasaka 284

Inter-calibration of METEOSATIR and WV channels using HIRSRob Roebeling, Jorg Schulz, Tim Hewison, and Bertrand Theodore 288

Poster Presentations

Analysis of the parameters of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere based on radio

occultation, ionosonde measurements, IRI and NeQuick model dataE. S. Andreeva and M. V. Lokota 292

The annual cycle of total precipitable water vapor derived from different remote

sensing techniques: An application to several sites of the Iberian Peninsula

Y. S. Bennouna, B. Torres, V. E. Cachorro, J. P. Ortiz de Galisteo, C. Toledano,A. Berjon, D. Fuertes, R. Gonzalez, and A. M. de Frutos 296

Fifteen years of stratospheric nitrogen dioxide and ozone measurements in Antarctica

D. Bortoli, F. Ravegnani, G. Giovanelli, P. S. Kulkarni, M. Anton, M. J. Costa,and A. M. Silva 300

C02 total column amounts at TCCON sites Izafia (28.3 N, 16.5 W) and Karlsruhe

(49.1 N, 8.5 E)S. Dohe, F. Hase, E. Sepulveda, A. Gomez-Pelaez, M. Schneider, T. Blumenstock,and O. Garcia 304

Maiden flight of the infrared sounder GLORIAFelix Friedl-Vallon and GLORIA-Team 308

The effects of ground-track sampling of aerosol fieldsI. Geogdzhayev, B. Cairns, M. Alexandrov, and M. Mishchenko 312

Possibility to discriminate snow types using brightness temperatures in the thermalinfrared wavelength region

Masahiro Hori, Tomonori Tanikawa, Teruo Aoki, Akihiro Hachikubo,Konosuke Sugiura, Katsuyuki Kuchiki, and Masashi Niwano 316

Use of information on locally normalized relative humidity profiles for improvingUTH retrieval

Hyun-Sung Jang and B. J. Sohn 320

A semi-empirical model for estimating surface solar radiation from satellite dataSerm Janjai, Somjet Pattarapanitchai, Rungrat Wattan, Itsara Masiri,Sumaman Buntoung, Worrapass Promsen, and Korntip Tohsing 324

New method for radiation calibration of satellite sensors with high spatial resolutionI. L. Katsev, A. S. Prikhach, and E. P. Zege 328

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An in-flight blackbody calibration source for the GLORIA interferometer onboard an

airborne research platformR. Koppmann, F. Olschewski, P. Steffens, C. Rolf, P. Preusse, A. Ebersoldt,F. Friedl-Vallon, A. Kleinert, C. Piesch, J. Hollandt, B. Gutschwager, and C. Monte 332

Retrieval of cloud top and bottom heights using advanced Earth observing

satellite / global imager (ADEOS-II / GLI) data

Makoto Kuji 336

Combined remote sensing of cloud characteristics with surface-based radar, lidar,

and all sky imagers over Beijing, ChinaJinli Liu, Daren Lu, Yongheng Bi, Shu Duan, Yong Yang, Yubin Pan, and Yu Li 340

3MI: The Multi-Viewing Multi-Channel Multi-Polarization Imaging Mission of the

EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation (EPS-SG) dedicated to aerosol

characterization

Thierry Marbach, Pepe Phillips, and Peter Schltissel 344

Information content for cloud ice microphysics in the FIR radiance spectrumAronne Merrelli and David D. Turner 348

Climatology of POLDER/PARASOL cloud propertiesF. Parol, J. Riedi, C. Vanbauce, C. Cornet, S. Zeng, F. Thieuleux, and N. Henriot 352

Remote sensing of tropospheric total column water vapor: Intercomparison of

POLDER, AMSR-E and MODIS retrievals

J. Riedi, L. Mcharek, P. Dubuisson, F. Parol, and F. Thieuleux 356

Assessment of aerosol hygroscopic growth using an elastic LIDAR and BRAMSsimulation in urban metropolitan areas

Patricia F. Rodrigues, Eduardo Landulfo, Adilson Wagner Gandu, and F. J. S. Lopes 360

Observations of UV radiation and total ozone column using ground based instrumentsin Rio Gallegos, Argentina (51° 36' S, 69° 19' W)

Jacobo Salvador, Elian Wolfram, Facundo Orte, Raul D'Elia, Daniela Bulnes,and Eduardo Quel 364

A compact and low resolution spectrometer for the inversion of water vapor totalcolumn amounts

E. Sepulveda, M. Schneider, F. Hase, O. E. Garcia, M. Gisi, T. Blumenstock, S. Dohe,Y. Gonzalez, and J. C. Guerra 368

The influence of the Earth's atmospheric turbulence on the space optical systemresolution

Oleg I. Smokty 372

Providing radiometric traceability for the calibration home base of DLR by PTBD. R. Taubert, J. Hollandt, P. Sperfeld, S. Pape, A. Hope, K.-O. Hauer, P. Gege,T. Schwarzmaier, K. Lenhard, and A. Baumgartner 376

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Synergetic ground-based methods for remote measurements of ozone vertical profilesYuriy Timofeyev, Vladimir Kostsov, and Yana Virolainen 380

Columnar aerosol characterization over Scandinavia and Svalbard

C. Toledano, V. E. Cachorro, J. P. Ortiz de Galisteo, Y. Bennouna, A. Berjon,B. Torres, D. Fuertes, R. Gonzalez, and A. M. de Frutos 384

Application of a precipitating cloud classification method to radar observations in

Thailand

Parichat Wetchayont, Tadahiro Hayasaka, and Shuichiro Katagiri 388

Deriving stratospheric trace gases from balloon-borne infrared/microwave limb

sounding measurementsJian Xu, Franz Schreier, Adrian Doicu, Peter Vogt, and Thomas Trautmann 392

Surface visibility retrieval with observations from the medium resolution spectralimager (MERSI) onboard the FY-3A meteorological satellite

Zhou Zhuhua, Liu Yuling, Zhang Wenjun, and Fu Rong 396

UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE USING SATELLITE DATA - INCLUDING EARTHCARE

GEWEX cloud assessment: A review

Claudia Stubenrauch, William B. Rossow, Stefan Kinne, Steve Ackerman,

Gregory Cesana, Helene Chepfer, Larry Di Girolamo, Brian Getzewich,Anthony Guignard, Andy Heidinger, Brent Maddux, Paul Menzel, Patrick Minnis,

Cindy Pearl, Steven Platnick, Caroline Poulsen, Jerome Riedi, Andrew Sayer,

Sunny Sun-Mack, Andi Walther, Dave Winker, Shen Zeng, and Guangyu Zhao 404

Cirrus cloud properties from combined IIR and lidar observations of CALIPSO

Anne Gamier, Jacques Pelon, Dave M. Winker, Philippe Dubuisson, Mark A. Vaughan,and Nicolas Pascal 408

FAME-C: Retrieval of cloud top pressure with vertically inhomogeneous cloud

profilesCintia Carbajal Henken, Rasmus Lindstrot, Florian Filipitsch, Andi Walther,Rene Preusker, and Jiirgen Fischer 412

Outcome of the third cloud retrieval evaluation workshop

Rob Roebeling, Bryan Baum, Ralf Bennartz, Ulrich Hamann, Andy Heidinger,Anke Thoss, and Andi Walther 416

HIRS OLR climate data record - Production and validation updatesHai-Tien Lee and Robert G. Ellingson 420

Conveners: G. Stephens, C. Stubenrauch, H. W. Barker, and T. Wehr

Oral Presentations

Decadal changes in thin cirrus height measured by MISRAbhnil Amtesh Prasad and Roger Davies 400

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Difference in fractional occurrences of precipitation categories in terms of cloud

propertiesKazuaki Kawamoto and Kentaroh Suzuki 424

Satellite-based analysis of clouds and radiation properties of different vegetation typesin the Brazilian Amazon region

Nadine Schneider, Johannes Quaas, Martin Claussen, and Christian Reick 428

Validation of monthly surface solar radiation over Europe derived from the CM SAF

dataset against homogenized GEBA series (1983-2005)Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, Joerg Trentmann, and Martin Wild 432

Aerosol radiative forcing over liquid water clouds based on A-Train synergies and

active/passive polarized observationsD. Josset, L. Doppler, F. Waquet, G. Seze, J. Pelon, Y. Hu, J. Fischer, F. Ravetta,C. Tsamalis, and P. Zhai 436

The importance of Asian dust aerosols as CCN estimated from satellite data analysisTadahiro Hayasaka, Tetsuhiko Saito, and Hironobu Iwabuchi 440

Scientific aspects of the Earth Clouds, Aerosols, and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE)mission

D. P. Donovan, H. W. Barker, R. J. Hogan, T. Wehr, M. Eisinger, D. Lajas,A. Lefebvre, and EarthCARE Phase-B ESA/JAXA Mission Advisory Group 444

Development of level 2 algorithms for EarthCARE CPR/ATLID

Hajime Okamoto, Kaori Sato, Yuichiro Hagihara, and Tomoaki Nishizawa 448

Poster Presentations

Model studies on the retrieval of aerosol properties beneath cirrus clouds for aspaceborne HSRL

Florian Filipitsch, Robert Buras, and Martin Fuchs 452

Global cloud distribution revealed by combined use of CloudSat/CALIPSO:

Comparison using CALIPSO versions 2 and 3 dataYuichiro Hagihara and Hajime Okamoto 456

Inter-comparison of cloud detection and cloud top height retrievals using the CREWdatabase

Ulrich Hamann, Andi Walter, Ralf Bennartz, Anke Thoss, Jan Fokke Meirink,and Rob Roebeling 460

Aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) viewed by satellite and ground-based remote sensingYoo-Jun Kim and Byung-Gon Kim 464

Using SEVIRI radiances to retrieve cloud optical properties of convective cloudsystems

Jennifer Mtiller, Jurgen Fischer, Anja Hunerbein, Hartwig Deneke, and Andreas Macke 468

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Development of aerosol and cloud retrieval algorithms using ATLID and MSI data ofEarthCARE

T. Nishizawa, A. Higurashi, N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, A. Shimizu, and H. Okamoto

Development of a radiative flux evaluation program with a 3-D Monte Carlo radiativetransfer code

Megumi Okata, Teruyuki Nakajima, Howard W. Barker, and David P. Donovan

Using AIRS to assess the precipitable water vapor in global climate models (GCMs)with regional validation from SuomiNet

Jacola Roman, Robert Knuteson, Steve Ackerman, David Tobin, William Smith,and Henry Revercomb

ESADUE GlobVapour water vapor products: ValidationNadine Schneider, Marc Schroder, Ramus Lindstrot, Rene Preusker, Martin Stengel,and ESA DUE GlobVapour Consortium

SURFACE MEASUREMENTS AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS

Conveners: T. Hayasaka, B. Forgan, andN. Hyett

Oral Presentations

Longwave irradiance measurements using IRIS radiometers at the PMOD/WRC-IRSJulian Grobner and Stefan Wacker

Long term analysis of cirrus clouds' effects on shortwave and longwave radiation

derived from data acquired by ground-based and satellite-borne observationsShuichiro Katagiri, Tadahiro Hayasaka, Atsushi Shimizu, Ichiro Matsui, Tomoaki

Nishizawa, Nobuo Sugimoto, and Tamio Takamura

Diffuse and direct components of solar radiation in ground-based and satellite-deriveddata

J. Ben Liley

Small-scale spatial variations of shortwave downward radiationRalf Becker, Petra Gebauer, and Klaus Behrens

Aerosol properties and radiative forcing for three air masses transported in Summer

2011 to Sopot, PolandAnna Rozwadowska, Iwona S. Stachlewska, P. Makuch, K. M. Markowicz, T. Petelski,

A. Strzalkowska, and T. Zieliriski

Trends and variability of aerosol vertical distribution and properties usingmicro-LIDAR and sun-photometer measurements

Augustin Mortier, Philippe Goloub, Thierry Podvin, Didier Tanre, Christine Deroo,Isabelle Chiapello, Aboubakry Diallo, and Thierno NDiaye

Influence of spatial heterogeneity of surface albedo on its retrieval from airborneirradiance measurements

E. Jakel, M. Wendisch, and Bernhard Mayer

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Airborne measurements of urban surface reflectivity and albedo

Britta Mey, Evelyn Jakel, Birgit Heese, Dietrich Althausen, Holger Baars, Xingfa Gu,Tao Yu, Zhengqiang Li, and Manfred Wendisch 516

The effect of chosen extraterrestrial solar spectrum on clear-sky atmospheric

absorption and heating rates in the near infraredKaah P. Menang and Keith P. Shine 520

Spectrometer and radiative transfer model comparison using high sun in-situobservations in Pretoria

Meena D. Lysko, Uwe Feister, Derek Griffith, Steffen Gross, Lufuno Vhengani,Arshath Ramkilowan, and Dawn Mahlobo 524

Ground-based measurements of atmospheric trace gases near Saint-Petersburg,Russia

Yuriy Timofeyev, Anatoly Poberovsky, Maria Makarova, Alexander Polyakov,

Dmitry Ionov, Yana Virolainen, Vladimir Kostsov, Marina Kshevetskaya,Anton Rakitin, Sergey Osipov, Hamud Imhasin, and Inna Frantsuzova 528

Ratio of PAR to broadband solar radiation based on long-term measurements inMoscow

Olga Shilovtseva 532

Investigation of the effect of contrails on direct and diffuse irradiance

Philipp Weihs, Erwin Feitzinger, Dietmar Baumgartner, Jochen Wagner,Marcus Rennhofer, Wolfgang Laube, and Josef Gadermaier 536

Mixed phase boundary layer clouds observed from a tethered balloon platform in theArctic

M. Sikand, J. Koskulics, K. Stamnes, B. Hamre, J. J. Stamnes, and R. P. Lawson 540

Poster Presentations

Aerosol optical properties in Finland during Russian forest fires in 2010

Veijo Aaltonen, Edith Rodriguez, Larisa Sogacheva, Pasi Aalto, Mika Komppula,Anne Hirsikko, Antti Arola, and Gerrit de Leeuw 544

Recording of solar radiation components for 75 years in Potsdam (Germany)Klaus Behrens 548

Evaluation of C02 flux modification as a function of aerosol optical depth at BananalIsland, Tocantins, Brazil

Renato K. Braghiere and Marcia A. Yamasoe 552

Aerosol effects on the cloud optical depth retrieval from atmospheric transmittanceJosep-Abel Gonzalez and Josep Calbo 556

Radiation balance variations on the Earth's surface in MoscowE. V. Gorbarenko and A. N. Rublev 560

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Characteristics of solar radiation and the impact of clouds at Yangbajing, TibetJuan Huo and Daren Lu 564

Two camera system for measurement of urban uptight angular distribution

Christopher C. M. Kyba, Thomas Ruhtz, Carsten Lindemann, Jurgen Fischer,and Franz Holker 568

Aerosol scattering optical properties by nephelometer measurements at theEl Arenosillo site (SW coastal area of Spain)

Juan F. Lopez, Victoria E. Cachorro, and Angel de Frutos 572

Characterization of aerosols in the Norwegian subarctic region (ALOMAR station):Optical properties, size distributions and nucleation events

S. Mogo, V. E. Cachorro, A. M. de Frutos, J. F. Lopez, B. Torres, and Y. Bennouna 576

Variations of longwave downwelling irradiance (LDI) due to different atmosphericfactors in Moscow

Yelena Nezval, Natalia Chubarova, Julian Grobner, and Atsumu Ohmura 580

Ground-based aerosol optical depth inter-comparison campaigns at EuropeanEUSAAR super-sites

S. Nyeki, J. Grobner, and C. Wehrli 584

Ground based measurements of aerosol properties using Microtops instruments

Bringfried Pflug 588

The contribution of the microwave radiometer ADMIRARI to the NASA GPM

ground validation field experimentPablo Saavedra Garfias, Alessandro Battaglia, and Clemens Simmer 592

Radiation forcing by the atmospheric aerosols in the nocturnal boundary layerD. K. Singh, V. K. Ponnulakshami, V. Mukund, G. Subramanian, and K. R. Sreenivas 596

Changes in surface irradiance and meteorological parameters associated with theannular solar Eclipse of 15 January 2010

Ramesh P. Singh, Manish Sharma, and Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis 600

Near-infrared extension of a visible spectrum airborne Sun photometerMarco Starace, Jonas von Bismarck, Andre Hollstein, Thomas Ruhtz, Rene Preusker,

and Jurgen Fischer 604

Impacts of major factors on downward longwave radiation

Kyohei Yamada, Tadahiro Hayasaka, and Hironobu Iwabuchi 608

RADIATION BUDGET AND FORCING

Conveners: M. Wild and N. G. Loeb

Oral Presentations

Climate monitoring with Earth radiation budget measurements

S. Dewitte, N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, A. Velazquez, E. Baudrez, S. Nevens, and I. Decoster 612

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An overview of results from the GEWEX radiation flux assessment

E. Raschke, P. Stackhouse, S. Kinne, and Contributors from Europeand the USA 616

Improvements to the solar forcing data record

Greg Kopp620

Total solar irradiance measurements with PREMOS/PICARD

Werner Schmutz, Andre Fehlmann, Wolfgang Finsterle, Greg Kopp,

and Gerard Thuillier624

A new diagram of the global energy balance

Martin Wild, Doris Folini, Christoph Schar, Norman Loeb, Ellsworth G. Dutton,

and Gert Konig-Langlo628

How well do we understand the Earth's radiation budget and the role of clouds?

Selected results ofthe GEWEXradiationflux assessment

E. Raschke and S. Kinne 632

The NASA GEWEX surface radiation budget project: Dataset validation and climatic

signal identification

Taiping Zhang, Paul W. Stackhouse, Jr., Shashi K. Gupta, Stephen J. Cox,

and J. Colleen Mikovitz 636

Quantification of the aerosol direct radiative effect from smoke over clouds using

passive space-borne spectrometryM. de Graaf, P. Stammes, and L. G. Tilstra 640

Vertical profiles of shortwave and longwave aerosol direct radiative forcing during

the GAMARF campaign at Lampedusa Island

Daniela Meloni, Marco Cacciani, Tatiana Di Iorio, Alcide di Sarra, Jose L. Gomez

Amo, Wolfgang Junkermann, Francesco Monteleone, Giandomenico Pace,

Salvatore Piacentino, and Damiano M. Sferlazzo 644

The next step in Earth radiation budget measurements

Warren Wiscombe and Christine Chiu 648

The climate monitoring SAF TOA radiation "GERB" datasetsNicolas Clerbaux, Edward Baudrez, Use Decoster, Steven Dewitte, Alessandro Ipe,

Stijn Nevens, and Almudena Velazquez-Blazquez 652

Shortwave flux profile analysis at the Cabauw BSRN site

P. Wang, H. Klein Baltink, W. H. Knap, and P. Stammes 656

Seasonal and regional diurnal variations of cloud effects on atmospheric profiles of

radiative heating/cooling from ISCCP-FD productYuanchong Zhang and William B. Rossow 660

What do we really know about cloud changes over the past decades?Enric Palle and Benjamin A. Laken 664

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Report of the working group BSRN - Baseline Surface Radiation NetworkGert Konig-Langlo and Rainer Sieger 668

Trends in surface radiation and cloud radiative effect over Switzerland in the past 15

years

Stefan Wacker, Julian Grobner, and Laurent Vuilleumier 672

Reflected, transmitted irradiance, radiative divergence and heating rate on the basisof simple atmospheric optical models

Irina Melnikova and Alexander Ginzburg 676

Evaluation of a relationship between aerosols and surface downward shortwave flux

through an integrative analysis of a global aerosol-transport model and in-situmeasurements

Daisuke Goto, Shuhei Kanazawa, Teruyuki Nakajima, and Toshihiko Takemura 680

Poster Presentations

Surface cloud radiative forcing in the South of PortugalM. J. Costa, V. Salgueiro, D. Santos, D. Bortoli, A. M. Silva, and R. Salgado 684

Science results from the Sova-Picard total solar irradiance instrument

S. Dewitte, E. Janssen, and S. Mekaoui 688

A device to measure the influence of spatially inhomogeneous cirrus on atmosphericradiation

F. Finger, M. Wendisch, S. Borrmann, P. Spichtinger, and M. Klingebiel 692

Empirical determination of direct aerosol radiative effects in the shortwave and

longwave spectral ranges during desert dust events over Valencia (Spain)Jose Luis Gomez-Amo, Maria Pilar Utrillas, and Jose Antonio Marti'nez-Lozano 696

Testing the homogeneity of short-term surface solar radiation series in EuropeMaria Z. Hakuba, Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, Doris Folini, and Martin Wild 700

Cirrus cloud radiative forcing at the top of atmosphere using the nighttime globaldistribution with the microphysical parameters derived from AVHRR

Shuichiro Katagiri, Miho Sekiguchi, Tadahiro Hayasaka,and Teruyuki Nakajima 704

A study of the aerosol direct forcing using ESSP/CALIPSO observation and GCMsimulation

Eiji Oikawa, Teruyuki Nakajima, Toshiro Inoue, and David Winker 708

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) reprocessing using Clouds and the Earth'sRadiant Energy System (CERES) angular distribution models

A. K. Shrestha,*S. Kato, K. M. Bedka, W. F. Miller, T. Wong, D. A. Rutan,G. L. Smith, J. R. Fernandez, N. Loeb, P. Minnis, and D. R. Doelling 712

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WEATHER, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE APPLICATIONS

Conveners: H.-L. A. Huang andH. Zhang

Oral Presentations

A new high- and low-frequency scattering parameterization for cirrus and its impact

on a high-resolution numerical weather prediction model

Anthony J. Baran, Paul Field, Kali Furtado, James Manners, and Andrew Smith 716

Comparison of longwave and shortwave cloud effects on equilibrium surface

temperature using a radiative-convective model and 12 years of MISR observations

R. Davies 720

Cross-track infrared sounder (CrIS) spectral radiance calibration and evaluations

David C. Tobin, Henry E. Revercomb, Joe K. Taylor, Robert O. Knuteson,Daniel H. DeSlover, and Lori A. Borg 724

Relevance of decadal variations in surface radiative fluxes for climate changeMartin Wild 728

The atmospheric water cycle over South America as seen in the new generation of

global reanalysesMario F. L. Quadro, Ernesto H. Berbery, Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Dirceu L. Herdies,and Luis G. G. Goncalves 732

Feasibility of sunshine duration records to detect changes in atmospheric turbidity:A case study in Valencia (Spain)

Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Martin Wild,

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Juan I. Lopez-Moreno, and David Corell-Custardoy 736

Evaluation of a scheme representing cloud inhomogeneous structure in the Australian

Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS)Zhian Sun, Charmaine Franklin, Xiaobing Zhou, and J. K. P. Shonk 740

Applying a local Ensemble transform Kalman filter assimilation system to theNICAM-SPRINTARS model

Tie Dai, N. A. J. Schutgens, and Teruyuki Nakajima 744

Understanding the influence of solar irradiance changes on Earth's climate during theHolocene

Georg Feulner 748

Poster Presentations

Trends in severe storms from nine years of AIRS data

H. H. Aumann and A. Ruzmaikin 752

Application and evaluation of McICA scheme in BCCAGCM2.0.1Xianwen Jing and Hua Zhang 756

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Assessment of the radiative processes impact on surface fluxes and temperature

forecast

M. Shatunova and A. Nikitin

SOLAR UV RADIATION

Conveners: M. Blumthaler, J. Grobner, and D. Lu

Oral Presentations

The assessment of UV resources over Northern Eurasia

Natalia Chubarova and Yekaterina Zhdanova

About UV albedo of seasonal snow at Sodankyla including Arctic - Antarctic

comparison aspectsO. Meinander, S. Kazadzis, A. Arola, R. Kivi, A. Kontu, H. Suokanerva, E. Kyro,V. Aaltonen, T. Manninen, A. Riihela, J.-L. Roujean, and 0. Hautecoeur

Aerosols in forecasts of the UV index: A comparison of different approachesVolkmar Holzwarth and Gudrun Laschewski

Long-term trends in spectral surface UV irradiance at Hoher Sonnblick (3106 m a.s 1

M. Fitzka, S. Simic, and J. Hadzimustafic

Monitoring the solar UV-B radiation in the North of Munich: A comparison of two

sites

Andreas Albert, Werner Rupprecht, Ingo Mayer, Manfred Steinmetz,Harald K. Seidlitz, and Stephan Thiel

The Norwegian UV-monitoring network: QC and results for the period 1996-2011B. Johnsen, L.-T. Nilsen, A. Dahlback, K. Edvardsen, and C. L. Myhre

Spectral solar UV radiation and its variability and climate responsesGuoyong Wen, Robert F. Cahalan, David Rind, Jeffery Jonas, Peter Pilewskie,and Jerald Harder

Inferring ultraviolet anatomical exposure patterns while distinguishing the relative

contribution of radiation componentsLaurent Vuilleumier, Antoine Milon, Jean-Luc Bulliard, Laurent Moccozet,

and David Vemez

A new method for the selection of measuring UV sites based on cloud classification

from satellite data

A. Zagouras, A. Kazantzidis, and E. Nikitidou

The spectral irradiance traceability chain at PTBP. Sperfeld, S. Pape, and S. Nevas

A guide to measuring solar UV spectra using array spectroradiometersMario Blumthaler, Julian Grobner, Luca Egli, and Saulius Nevas

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Characterization and calibration of compact array spectrometers in the ultraviolet

spectral regionFrancois Shindo, Emma Woolliams, Barry Scott, and Subrena Harris

Improved diffusers for solar UV spectroradiometersTomi Pulli, Petri Karha, Joop Mes, Josef Schreder, Priit Jaanson,

and Farshid Manoocheri

Calibration of erythemally weighted broadband instruments: A comparison between

PMODAVRC and MSL

Neil Swift, Gregor Hiilsen, Kathryn Nield, Julian Grobner, and John Hamlin

Transferability of stray light corrections among array spectroradiometersSaulius Nevas, Armin Sperling, and Benno Oderkerk

New technologies to reduce stray light for measuring solar UV with array

spectroradiometersLuca Egli, Julian Grobner, Marek Smid, Geiland Porrovecchio, Tim Burnitt,Kathryn M. Nield, Steve Gibson, Jimmy Dubard, Saulius Nevas, and Maurizo Tormen

Adaptation of a Fourier transform spectrometer as a reference instrument for solar

UV irradiance measurements

Peter Meindl, Christian Monte, and Martin Wahmer

Stability of light-emitting diodes in the solar UV spectral rangeS. Nowy, S. Nevas, M. Lopez, M. Lindemann, A. Sperling, P. Blattner,and S. M. Foaleng

New detection systems for UV solar reference scanning spectroradiometersG. Porrovecchio, M. Smid, J. Grobner, M. Rajteri, C. Portesi, K. M. Nield, and L. Egli

Poster Presentations

A method to estimate erythemal UV from total solar irradiance measurements based

on 9 years of 1-minute data at Lauder, New Zealand

J. Badosa, J. Calbo, R. McKenzie, C. N. Long, B. Liley, and J. A. Gonzalez

An investigation of solar erythemal ultraviolet radiation at two sites in touristattraction areas of Thailand

Sumaman Buntoung, Somjet Pattarapanitchai, Rungrat Wattan, Itsara Masiri,Worrapass Promsen, Korntip Tohsing, and Serm Janjai

Solar UV radiation measurements across the Tibetan Plateau

Yi-Chun Chen, Gelsor Norsang, Nima Pingcuo, Arne Dahlback, 0yvind Frette,Berit Kjeldstad, Berge Hamre, Knut Stamnes, and Jakob J. Stamnes

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Surface UV radiation in the South of Portugal: Monitoring and assessment of cloud

effects

M. J. Costa, D. Bortoli, S. Pereira, V. Salgueiro, A. M. Silva, A. Serrano, M. Anton,J. M. Vilaplana, M. L. Cancillo, D. Santos, and P. Kulkarni 852

Solar ultraviolet irradiance measurements in Aosta (Italy): An analysis of short- andmiddle-term spectral variability

Henri Diemoz, Luca Egli, Julian Grobner, Anna Maria Siani, and Fabrizio Diotri 856

Solar UV radiation exposure of seamen - Measurements, calibration and model

calculations of erythemal irradiance along ship routesUwe Feister, Gabriele Meyer, and Ulrich Kirst 860

Comparison between measurements and model simulations of solar radiation at a

high altitude site: Case studies for the Izaiia BSRN stationRosa Delia Garcia, Emilio Cuevas, Victoria Eugenia Cachorro, Ramon Ramos,and Angel Maximo de Frutos 864

UV-radiation in the past: Reconstruction and long-term changes in AustriaJ. Hadzimustafic, S. Simic, and M. Fitzka 868

Reconstruction of daily erythemal UV radiation values for the last century - The

benefit of modelled ozone

J. Junk, U. Feister, E. Rozanov, and J. W. Krzyscin 872

Sky erythema ultraviolet radiance and UV shade charts

Toshimasa Kawanishi 876

UV and VUV calibration capabilities at the Metrology Light Source for solar and

atmospheric researchR. Klein, A. Gottwald, M. Kolbe, M. Richter, F. Scholze, R. Thornagel, and G. Ulm 879

Two decades of spectral UV measurements at SodankylaKaisa Lakkala, Antti Arola, Anu Heikkila, Juha M. Karhu, Jussi Kaurola, TapaniKoskela, Esko Kyro, Petri Karha, Anders V. Lindfors, Outi Meinander, Julian Grobner,and Gregor Hiilsen 883

Aerosol optical properties and their effect on the UV solar irradiance at Uccle,

BelgiumEfterpi Nikitidou, Veerle De Bock, Hugo De Backer, and Andreas Kazantzidis 887

Vitamin D synthesis measured with a multiband filter radiometer in Rio Callegos,

ArgentinaFacundo Orte, Elian Wolfram, Jacobo Salvador, Raul D'Elia, Daniela Bulnes,N. Paes Leme, and Eduardo Quel 891

Estimation of cloud optical depth for low clouds from UV erythemal irradianceDavid Serrano, Maria Jose Marin, Maria Pilar Utrillas, Jose Antonio Martinez-Lozano,Manuel Nunez, and Jose Luis Gomez-Amo 895

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Diurnal and daily variations in surface ultraviolet radiation due to ozone variations inthe troposphere at Tsukuba, Japan: Lidar observations and chemistry-climate modelsimulation

Kiyotaka Shibata, Makoto Deushi, Takashi Maki, Tomohiro Nagai, Testu Sakai,and Masahisa Nakazato 899

Biologically effective surface UV climatology at Rome and Aosta, ItalyAnna Maria Siani, Sarah Modesti, Giuseppe Rocco Casale, Henri Diemoz,and Alfredo Colosimo 903

Study of cloud enhanced surface UV radiation at the atmospheric observatory ofSouthern Patagonia, Rio Gallegos, Argentina

Elian A. Wolfram, Jacobo Salvador, Facundo Orte, Daniela Bulnes, Raul D'Elia,Manuel Anton, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, and Eduardo Quel 907

A method of estimating cloud transmission in the UV spectral range using data fromdifferent satellite measurements and reanalysis

Yekaterina Zhdanova, Natalia Chubarova, and Yelena Nezval 911

OCEAN OPTICS

Conveners: G. Kattawar and K. Stamnes

Oral Presentations

Wave-induced irradiance variability in the upper ocean from modeling andobservations

Martin Hieronymi and Andreas Macke 915

A new algorithm for simultaneous retrieval of aerosol and marine parameters incoastal environments

K. Stamnes, W. Li, Y. Fan, B. Hamre, 0. Frette, A. Folkestad, K. S0rensen,and J. J. Stamnes 919

C-disort: A versatile tool for radiative transfer in coupled media like theatmosphere-ocean system

B. Hamre, S. Stamnes, K. Stamnes, and J. J. Stamnes 923

Discrete ordinate and Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transfer in coupledatmosphere-ocean systems

S. Stamnes, D. Cohen, T. Tanikawa, E. R. Sommersten, J. K. Lotsberg, J. J. Stamnes,and K. Stamnes 927

A model of underwater spectral irradiance accounting for wave focusingPeter Gege 931

Optical modeling of aerosol extinction for remote sensing in the marine environmentG. A. Kaloshin

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An examination of errors in computed water-leaving radiances due to a simplifiedtreatment of water Raman scattering effects

Jonas von Bismarck and Jtirgen Fischer 939

Poster Presentations

Modeling the adjacency effects at AERONET-OC sitesBarbara Bulgarelli, Giuseppe Zibordi, and Viatcheslav Kiselev 943

Simulation of the ocean's spectral radiant thermal source and boundary conditionsVladimir Merzlikin, Maxim Krass, Svyatoslav Cheranev, and Aleksandra Aloric 947

An extended validation test for data input into parameterized retrieval algorithmsMichael Schaale and Thomas Schroeder 951

Author Index955

Participants List 965

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