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AN: A14A-01    [Abstracts]
TI: An investigation of cloud and aerosol properties using CALIOP and MODIS
AU: * Ackerman, S A
EM: steve.ackerman@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: SSEC-Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 1225 W. Dayton, Madison, WI 53706, United States
AU: Holz, R E
EM: reholz@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: SSEC-Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 1225 W. Dayton, Madison, WI 53706, United States
AU: Kuehn, R E
EM: ralph.e.kuehn@nasa.gov
AF: SSAI, Mail Stop 475, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, United States
AU: Frey, R
EM: richard.frey@ssec.wisc.edu
AF: SSEC-Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 1225 W. Dayton, Madison, WI 53706, United States
AB: The launch of CALIPSO in June of 2006 provides over a year of global active remote sensed measurements of clouds and aerosol. The CALIOP measurements on CALIPSO offer a unique perspective of the earth's atmosphere with its capability to measure aerosols and clouds with very high vertical resolution and sensitivity. The near coincident orbit with the EOS AQUA suit of passive remote sensed cloud properties offers an opportunity to make direct comparisons between the passive and active measurements. Using collocated MODIS and CALIOP measurements this presentation will investigate the sensitivity of CALIOP and MODIS at detecting and distinguishing clouds and aerosols with the goal of charactering the sensitivity differences between the active and passive retrievals. The analysis will include both global and region comparisons.
DE: 0305 Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801, 4906)
DE: 0321 Cloud/radiation interaction
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting