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Melville, New York, 2013AIP | CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1531
EDITORS
Robert F. CahalanNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Jürgen FischerFree University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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
All papers have been peer reviewed.
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONSFree 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)
Editors
Robert F. CahalanNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterLaboratory for Atmospheres8800 Greenbelt RoadGreenbelt, MD 20771USA
E-mail: [email protected]
Jürgen FischerFree University of BerlinInstitute for Space StudiesCarl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10D-12165 BerlinGermany
E-mail: juergen.fi [email protected]
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AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1531 RADIATION 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
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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 misconceptions Michael I. Mishchenko
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Active remote sensing of cloud microphysics Hajime Okamoto
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MIPAS: 10 years of spectroscopic measurements for investigating atmospheric composition Herbert Fischer
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Status of high spectral resolution IR for advancing atmospheric state characterization and climate trend benchmarking: A period of both opportunity realized and squandered Henry Revercomb, Fred Best, Robert Knuteson, David Tobin, Joe Taylor, and Jon Gero
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Growing up MODIS: Towards a mature aerosol climate data record Robert C. Levy
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Radiative transfer and regional climate change Kuo-Nan Liou
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Ocean optics: The next frontier George W. Kattawar
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY AND MODELING Conveners: B. Mayer, A. Marshak, and J.-L. Widlowski
Oral Presentations
New approach for radiative transfer in sea ice and its application for sea ice satellite remote sensing E. P. Zege, A. V. Malinka, I. L. Katsev, A. S. Prikhach, and G. Heygster
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The line-by-line and polarized Monte Carlo atmospheric radiative transfer model B. A. Fomin and V. A. Falaleeva
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Hyperspectral retrieval of surface reflectances: A new scheme Jean-Claude Thelen and Stephan Havemann
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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 Bernhard Mayer
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The visibility of airborne volcanic ash from the flight deck of an aircraft - The effect of clouds in the field of view
Daniel Sauer, Josef Gasteiger, Claudia Emde, Robert Buras, Bernhard Mayer, and Bernadett Weinzierl
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Results of processing airborne NASA and Russian cloud data Irina Melnikova, Jefwa M. Genya, and Charles K. Gatebe
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3D radiative processes in satellite measurements of aerosol properties Tamás Várnai, Alexander Marshak, Weidong Yang, and Guoyong Wen
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Assessment of cloud heterogeneities effects on brightness temperatures simulated with a 3D Monte Carlo code in the thermal infrared Thomas Fauchez, Céline Cornet, Frédéric Szczap, and Philippe Dubuisson
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Parametric 3D atmospheric reconstruction in highly variable terrain with recycled Monte Carlo paths and an adapted Bayesian inference engine Ian Langmore, Anthony B. Davis, Guillaume Bal, and Youssef M. Marzouk
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Remote sensing of particle size profiles from cloud sides: Observables and retrievals in a 3D environment Florian Ewald, Tobias Zinner, and Bernhard Mayer
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Poster Presentations
Characterization of cloud microphysical parameters using airborne measurements by the research scanning polarimeter
Mikhail D. Alexandrov, Brian Cairns, Michael I. Mishchenko, Andrew S. Ackerman, and Claudia Emde
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Solution of the radiative transfer equation by eliminating the anisotropic part within the method of synthetic iteration Vladimir P. Budak and Oleg V. Shagalov
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The phase matrix truncation impact on polarized radiance M. Compiègne, L. C-Labonnote, and P. Dubuisson
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Evaluation of cloud heterogeneity effects on total and polarized visible radiances as measured 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
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Retrieval of volcanic ash and ice cloud physical properties together with gas concentration from IASI measurements using the AVL model S. Kochenova, M. De Mazière, N. Kumps, S. Vandenbussche, and T. Kerzenmacher
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Use of shadowband correction models for predicting direct solar irradiance M. C. Kotti, A. A. Argiriou, and A. Kazantzidis
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Simulation of airborne radar observations of precipitating systems at various frequency bands Valentin Louf, Olivier Pujol, and Jérôme Riedi
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Fast radiative transfer model to simulate spectroscopic measurements of outgoing IR radiances in cloudy conditions Alexey Rublev and Anatoly Trotsenko
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Intercomparison of three microwave/infrared high resolution line-by-line radiative transfer codes
F. Schreier, S. Gimeno Garcia, M. Milz, A. Kottayil, M. Höpfner, T. von Clarmann, and G. Stiller
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Py4CAtS – Python tools for line-by-line modelling of infrared atmospheric radiative transfer Franz Schreier and Sebastián Gimeno García
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Theory of weak spectral line formation within a plane-parallel atmosphere bounded from below by a reflecting underlying surface Oleg I. Smokty
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Analytical spatial-angular structure of polarized radiation fields in a uniform atmospheric slab Oleg I. Smokty
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The mirror symmetry principle for radiation fields in a vertically non-uniform atmospheric slab Oleg I. Smokty
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A 3D polarized Monte Carlo LIDAR system simulator for studying effects of cirrus inhomogeneities on CALIOP/CALIPSO measurements
F. Szczap, C. Cornet, A. Alqassem, Y. Gour, L. C.-Labonnote, and O. Jourdan
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PARTICLE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES Conveners: T. Aoki, P. Di Girolamo, and H. Ishimoto
Oral Presentations
Retrieval of aerosol microstructure and radiative properties for moderate turbidity under conditions of Western Siberia Tatiana B. Zhuravleva, Tatiana V. Bedareva, and Mikhail A. Sviridenkov
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Vertical resolved aerosol characterization during the GAMARF campaign: Aerosol size distribution and radiative properties
José Luis Gómez-Amo, Daniela Meloni, Alcide di Sarra, Tatiana Di Iorio, Wolfgang Junkermann, Víctor Estellés, Giandomenico Pace, and Jeroni Lorente
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A novel, broadband spectroscopic method to measure the extinction coefficient of aerosols in the near-ultraviolet Eoin M. Wilson, Jun Chen, Ravi M. Varma, John C. Wenger, and Dean S. Venables
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Aerosol characteristics at the Alpine site of Innsbruck, Austria Sigrid Wuttke, Axel Kreuter, and Mario Blumthaler
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Comparison of modeled optical properties of Saharan mineral dust aerosols with SAMUM 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
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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 glacial microbes in Northwestern Greenland
Teruo Aoki, Katsuyuki Kuchiki, Masashi Niwano, Sumito Matoba, Jun Uetake, Kazuhiko Masuda, and Hiroshi Ishimoto
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Development of a quality control algorithm for analysis of SKYNET data and an estimation of the single scattering albedo Makiko Hashimoto and Teruyuki Nakajima
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Optical modeling of irregularly shaped ice particles in convective cirrus
Hiroshi Ishimoto, Kazuhiko Masuda, Yuzo Mano, Narihiro Orikasa, and Akihiro Uchiyama
184
Optimizing the ice crystal scattering database for the GCOM-C/SGLI satellite mission Husi Letu, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Takashi N. Matsui, and Yoshiaki Matsumae
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Synergetic retrieval of atmospheric aerosol from a combination of lidar and radiometer ground-based observations
Anton Lopatin, Oleg Dubovik, Anatoli Chaikovsky, Philippe Goloub, Didier Tanre, Pavel Litvinov, and Tatiana Lapyonok
192
Satellite study over Europe to estimate the single scattering albedo and the aerosol optical depth
E. Rodríguez, P. Kolmonen, A.-M. Sundström, L. Sogacheva, T. Virtanen, and G. de Leeuw
196
Detection and analyses of hydrometeor properties from EarthCARE data Kaori Sato and Hajime Okamoto
200
Characterization of particle hygroscopicity by Raman lidar: Selected case studies from the convective and orographically-induced precipitation study Dario Stelitano, Paolo Di Girolamo, and Donato Summa
204
Characterization of PBL height and structure by Raman lidar: Selected case studies from the convective and orographically-induced precipitation study Donato Summa, Paolo Di Girolamo, and Dario Stelitano
208
GENERAL REMOTE SENSING
Conveners: A. Larar, B. J. Sohn, W. Smith, and J. Schmetz
Oral Presentations
IASI/MetOp sounder contribution for atmospheric composition monitoring: 4-year study of radiance data
C. Oudot, C. Clerbaux, J. Hadji Lazaro, M. George, S. Safieddine, L. Clarisse, D. Hurtmans, and P. Coheur
212
Retrieval of relative humidity profiles and its associated error from Megha-Tropiques measurements R. Sivira, H. Brogniez, C. Mallet, and Y. Oussar
216
Geophysical information from advanced Sounder InfraRed spectral radiance Allen M. Larar, Daniel K. Zhou, Xu Liu, and William L. Smith
220
The atmospheric and surface sounding from the Meteor satellite (numerical simulation)
Alexander Polyakov, Yuriy Timofeyev, Vladimir Kostsov, Yana Virolainen, and Alexander Uspensky
224
Monitoring AVHRR-MODIS-VIIRS radiometrie consistency using MICROS online near-real time system XingMing Liang, Alexander Ignatov, and Korak Saha
228
Characterization of convection-related parameters by Raman lidar: Selected case studies from the convective and orographically-induced precipitation study Paolo Di Girolamo, Donato Summa, and Dario Stelitano
232
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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 sensing
Vladimir Kostsov
240
Atmospheric profiling synthetic observation system (APSOS) Daren Lu and Weilin Pan
244
Inferences about pressures and vertical extension of cloud layers from POLDER3/PARASOL measurements in the oxygen A-band Marine Desmons, Nicolas Ferlay, Frédéric Parol, Claudine Vanbauce,
and Linda Mcharek
248
Simultaneous multi-layer retrievals of ice and liquid water cloud properties using passive measurements O. Sourdeval, L. C.-Labonnote, G. Brogniez, and A. J. Baran
252
Influence of surface albedo inhomogeneities on passive remote sensing of cirrus properties
Clemens Fricke, André Ehrlich, Evelyn Jäckel, Birger Bohn, Martin Wirth, ���Manfred Wendisch
256
On the feasibility to combine observations from multiwavelength radar and the multi-frequency radiometer ADMIRARI to retrieve precipitating cloud parameters
Pablo Saavedra Garfias, Alessandro Battaglia, Clemens Simmer, Manuel Vega, �����Chandrasekar
260
Cloud retrieval using ship-based spectral transmissivity measurements M. Brueckner, A. Macke, M. Wendisch, T. Kanitz, and B. Pospichal
264
Diagnosis and improvement of cloud parameterization schemes in NCEP/GFS using multiple satellite products Hyelim Yoo and Zhanqing Li
268
Influence of sky radiance measurement errors on inversion-retrieved aerosol properties
B. Torres, C. Toledano, A. J. Berjón, O. Dubovik, V. E. Cachorro, Y. S. Bennouna, D. Fuertes, R. González, P. Goloub, T. Podvin, L. Blarel, and A. M. de Frutos
272
Possibilities for the retrieval of aerosol vertical profiles from space using hyper spectral radiance measurements in the oxygen absorption bands André 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, Tamás Várnai, 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 METEOSAT IR and WV channels using HIRS Rob Roebeling, Jörg 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 data E. 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. Berjón, D. Fuertes, R. González, 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
CO2 total column amounts at TCCON sites Izaña (28.3 N, 16.5 W) and Karlsruhe (49.1 N, 8.5 E)
S. Dohe, F. Hase, E. Sepúlveda, A. Gomez-Pelaez, M. Schneider, T. Blumenstock, and O. García
304
Maiden flight of the infrared sounder GLORIA Felix Friedl-Vallon and GLORIA-Team
308
The effects of ground-track sampling of aerosol fields I. Geogdzhayev, B. Cairns, M. Alexandrov, and M. Mishchenko
312
Possibility to discriminate snow types using brightness temperatures in the thermal infrared 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 improving UTH retrieval Hyun-Sung Jang and B. J. Sohn
320
A semi-empirical model for estimating surface solar radiation from satellite data
Serm 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 resolution I. 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 platform
R. 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, China Jinli 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 Schlüssel
344
Information content for cloud ice microphysics in the FIR radiance spectrum Aronne Merrelli and David D. Turner
348
Climatology of POLDER/PARASOL cloud properties F. 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 BRAMS simulation in urban metropolitan areas Patrícia F. Rodrigues, Eduardo Landulfo, Adilson Wagner Gandu, and F. J. S. Lopes
360
Observations of UV radiation and total ozone column using ground based instruments in Río Gallegos, Argentina (51º 36' S, 69º 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 total column amounts
E. Sepúlveda, M. Schneider, F. Hase, O. E. García, M. Gisi, T. Blumenstock, S. Dohe, Y. González, and J. C. Guerra
368
The influence of the Earth’s atmospheric turbulence on the space optical system resolution Oleg I. Smokty
372
Providing radiometric traceability for the calibration home base of DLR by PTB
D. R. Taubert, J. Hollandt, P. Sperfeld, S. Pape, A. Höpe, 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 profiles Yuriy 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. Berjón, B. Torres, D. Fuertes, R. González, 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 measurements Jian Xu, Franz Schreier, Adrian Doicu, Peter Vogt, and Thomas Trautmann
392
Surface visibility retrieval with observations from the medium resolution spectral imager (MERSI) onboard the FY-3A meteorological satellite Zhou Zhuhua, Liu Yuling, Zhang Wenjun, and Fu Rong
396
UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE USING SATELLITE DATA - INCLUDING EARTHCARE
Conveners: G. Stephens, C. Stubenrauch, H. W. Barker, and T. Wehr
Oral Presentations
Decadal changes in thin cirrus height measured by MISR Abhnil Amtesh Prasad and Roger Davies
400
GEWEX cloud assessment: A review
Claudia Stubenrauch, William B. Rossow, Stefan Kinne, Steve Ackerman, Gregory Cesana, Hélène Chepfer, Larry Di Girolamo, Brian Getzewich, Anthony Guignard, Andy Heidinger, Brent Maddux, Paul Menzel, Patrick Minnis, Cindy Pearl, Steven Platnick, Caroline Poulsen, Jérôme 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 Garnier, 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 profiles
Cintia Carbajal Henken, Rasmus Lindstrot, Florian Filipitsch, Andi Walther, Rene Preusker, and Jürgen 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 updates Hai-Tien Lee and Robert G. Ellingson
420
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Difference in fractional occurrences of precipitation categories in terms of cloud properties Kazuaki Kawamoto and Kentaroh Suzuki
424
Satellite-based analysis of clouds and radiation properties of different vegetation types in the Brazilian Amazon region Nadine Schneider, Johannes Quaas, Martin Claussen, and Christian Reick
428
Validation of monthly surface solar radiation over �urope 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 observations
D. 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 analysis Tadahiro Hayasaka, Tetsuhiko Saito, and Hironobu Iwabuchi
440
Scientific aspects of the Earth �louds, �erosols, and !adiation �xplorer (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 a spaceborne 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 data Yuichiro Hagihara and Hajime Okamoto
456
Inter-comparison of cloud detection and cloud top height retrievals using the CREW database
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 sensing Yoo-Jun Kim and Byung-Gon Kim
464
Using SEVIRI radiances to retrieve cloud optical properties of convective cloud systems Jennifer Müller, Jürgen Fischer, Anja Hünerbein, Hartwig Deneke, and Andreas Macke
468
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Development of aerosol and cloud retrieval algorithms using ATLID and MSI data of EarthCARE T. Nishizawa, A. Higurashi, N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, A. Shimizu, and H. Okamoto
472
Development of a radiative flux evaluation program with a 3-D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code Megumi Okata, Teruyuki Nakajima, Howard W. Barker, and David P. Donovan
476
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
480
ESA DUE GlobVapour water vapor products: Validation
Nadine Schneider, Marc Schröder, Ramus Lindstrot, Rene Preusker, Martin Stengel, and ESA DUE GlobVapour Consortium
484
SURFACE MEASUREMENTS AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS
Conveners: T. Hayasaka, B. Forgan, and N. Hyett
Oral Presentations
Longwave irradiance measurements using IRIS radiometers at the PMOD/WRC-IRS Julian Gröbner and Stefan Wacker
488
Long term analysis of cirrus clouds’ effects on shortwave and longwave radiation derived from data acquired by ground-based and satellite-borne observations
Shuichiro Katagiri, Tadahiro Hayasaka, Atsushi Shimizu, Ichiro Matsui, Tomoaki Nishizawa, Nobuo Sugimoto, and Tamio Takamura
492
Diffuse and direct components of solar radiation in ground-based and satellite-derived data J. Ben Liley
496
Small-scale spatial variations of shortwave downward radiation Ralf Becker, Petra Gebauer, and Klaus Behrens
500
Aerosol properties and radiative forcing for three air masses transported in Summer 2011 to Sopot, Poland
Anna Rozwadowska, Iwona S. Stachlewska, P. Makuch, K. M. Markowicz, T. Petelski, A. Strza�kowska, and T. Zieli�ski
504
Trends and variability of aerosol vertical distribution and properties using micro-LIDAR and sun-photometer measurements
Augustin Mortier, Philippe Goloub, Thierry Podvin, Didier Tanré, Christine Deroo, Isabelle Chiapello, Aboubakry Diallo, and Thierno NDiaye
508
Influence of spatial heterogeneity of surface albedo on its retrieval from airborne irradiance measurements E. Jäkel, M. Wendisch, and Bernhard Mayer
512
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Airborne measurements of urban surface reflectivity and albedo
Britta Mey, Evelyn Jäkel, 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 infrared Kaah P. Menang and Keith P. Shine
520
Spectrometer and radiative transfer model comparison using high sun in-situ observations 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 in Moscow 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 the Arctic 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 CO2 flux modification as a function of aerosol optical depth at Bananal Island, Tocantins, Brazil Renato K. Braghiere and Marcia A. Yamasoe
552
Aerosol effects on the cloud optical depth retrieval from atmospheric transmittance Josep-Abel González and Josep Calbó
556
Radiation balance variations on the Earth’s surface in Moscow E. V. Gorbarenko and A. N. Rublev
560
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Characteristics of solar radiation and the impact of clouds at Yangbajing, Tibet Juan Huo and Daren Lu
564
Two camera system for measurement of urban uplight angular distribution
Christopher C. M. Kyba, Thomas Ruhtz, Carsten Lindemann, Jürgen Fischer, and Franz Hölker
568
Aerosol scattering optical properties by nephelometer measurements at the El Arenosillo site (SW coastal area of Spain) Juan F. López, Victoria E. Cachorro, and Ángel de Frutos
572
Characterization of aerosols in the "orwegian 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 atmospheric factors in Moscow Yelena Nezval, Natalia Chubarova, Julian Gröbner, and Atsumu Ohmura
580
Ground-based aerosol optical depth inter-comparison campaigns at European EUSAAR super-sites S. Nyeki, J. Gröbner, and C. Wehrli
584
Ground based measurements of aerosol properties using �icrotops instruments Bringfried Pflug
588
The contribution of the microwave radiometer ADMIRARI to the NASA GPM ground validation field experiment Pablo Saavedra Garfias, Alessandro Battaglia, and Clemens Simmer
592
Radiation forcing by the atmospheric aerosols in the nocturnal boundary layer D. K. Singh, V. K. Ponnulakshami, V. Mukund, G. Subramanian, and K. R. Sreenivas
596
Changes in surface irradiance and meteorological parameters associated with the annular 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 photometer
Marco Starace, Jonas von Bismarck, André Hollstein, Thomas Ruhtz, René Preusker, and Jürgen 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 Europe and the USA
616
Improvements to the solar forcing data record Greg Kopp
620
Total solar irradiance measurements with PREMOS/PICARD
Werner Schmutz, André Fehlmann, Wolfgang Finsterle, Greg Kopp, and Gerard Thuillier
624
A new diagram of the global energy balance
Martin Wild, Doris Folini, Christoph Schär, Norman Loeb, Ellsworth G. Dutton, and Gert König-Langlo
628
How well do we understand the Earth's radiation budget and the role of clouds? Selected results of the GEWEX radiation flux 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, �!��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 spectrometry M. 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, Josè L. Gómez 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” datasets
Nicolas Clerbaux, Edward Baudrez, Ilse 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 product Yuanchong 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 Network Gert König-Langlo and Rainer Sieger
668
Trends in surface radiation and cloud radiative effect over Switzerland in the past 15 years Stefan Wacker, Julian Gröbner, and Laurent Vuilleumier
672
Reflected, transmitted irradiance, radiative divergence and heating rate on the basis of 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-situ measurements Daisuke Goto, Shuhei Kanazawa, Teruyuki Nakajima, and Toshihiko Takemura
680
Poster Presentations
Surface cloud radiative forcing in the South of Portugal M. 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 atmospheric radiation 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) José Luis Gómez-Amo, María Pilar Utrillas, and José Antonio Martínez-Lozano
696
Testing the homogeneity of short-term surface solar radiation series in Europe Maria Z. Hakuba, Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo, Doris Folini, and Martin Wild
700
Cirrus cloud radiative forcing at the top of atmosphere using the nighttime global distribution 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 GCM simulation Eiji Oikawa, Teruyuki Nakajima, Toshiro Inoue, and "�#�����$ !
708
Earth !adiation #udget �xperiment (ERBE) reprocessing using �louds and the Earth’s !adiant �nergy $ystem (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 and H. 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 change Martin Wild
728
The atmospheric water cycle over South America as seen in the new generation of global reanalyses
Mario F. L. Quadro, Ernesto H. Berbery, Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Dirceu L. Herdies, and Luis G. G. Gonçalves
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. López-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 the NICAM-SPRINTARS model Tie Dai, N. A. J. Schutgens, and Teruyuki Nakajima
744
Understanding the influence of solar irradiance changes on Earth’s climate during the Holocene 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 BCC_AGCM2.0.1 Xianwen 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
760
SOLAR UV RADIATION
Conveners: M. Blumthaler, J. Gröbner, and D. Lu
Oral Presentations The assessment of UV resources over Northern Eurasia Natalia Chubarova and Yekaterina Zhdanova
764
About UV albedo of seasonal snow at Sodankylä including Arctic - Antarctic comparison aspects
O. Meinander, S. Kazadzis, A. Arola, R. Kivi, A. Kontu, H. Suokanerva, E. Kyrö, V. Aaltonen, T. Manninen, A. Riihelä, J.-L. Roujean, and O. Hautecoeur
768
Aerosols in forecasts of the UV index: A comparison of different approaches Volkmar Holzwarth and Gudrun Laschewski
772
Long-term trends in spectral surface UV irradiance at Hoher Sonnblick (3106 m a.s l.) M. Fitzka, S. Simic, and J. Hadzimustafic
776
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
780
The Norwegian UV-monitoring network: QC and results for the period 1996-2011 B. Johnsen, L.-T. Nilsen, A. Dahlback, K. Edvardsen, and C. L. Myhre
784
Spectral solar UV radiation and its variability and climate responses
Guoyong Wen, Robert F. Cahalan, David Rind, Jeffery Jonas, Peter Pilewskie, and Jerald Harder
788
Inferring ultraviolet anatomical exposure patterns while distinguishing the relative contribution of radiation components
Laurent Vuilleumier, Antoine Milon, Jean-Luc Bulliard, Laurent Moccozet, and David Vernez
792
A new method for the selection of measuring UV sites based on cloud classification from satellite data A. Zagouras, A. Kazantzidis, and E. Nikitidou
797
The spectral irradiance traceability chain at PTB P. Sperfeld, S. Pape, and S. Nevas
801
A guide to measuring solar UV spectra using array spectroradiometers Mario Blumthaler, Julian Gröbner, Luca Egli, and Saulius Nevas
805
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Characterization and calibration of compact array spectrometers in the ultraviolet spectral region Francois Shindo, Emma Woolliams, Barry Scott, and Subrena Harris
809
Improved diffusers for solar UV spectroradiometers
Tomi Pulli, Petri Kärhä, Joop Mes, Josef Schreder, Priit Jaanson, and Farshid Manoocheri
813
Calibration of erythemally weighted broadband instruments: A comparison between PMOD/WRC and MSL Neil Swift, Gregor Hülsen, Kathryn Nield, Julian Gröbner, and John Hamlin
817
Transferability of stray light corrections among array spectroradiometers Saulius Nevas, Armin Sperling, and Benno Oderkerk
821
New technologies to reduce stray light for measuring solar UV with array spectroradiometers
Luca Egli, Julian Gröbner, Marek Smid, Geiland Porrovecchio, Tim Burnitt, Kathryn M. Nield, Steve Gibson, Jimmy Dubard, Saulius Nevas, and Maurizo Tormen
825
Adaptation of a Fourier transform spectrometer as a reference instrument for solar UV irradiance measurements Peter Meindl, Christian Monte, and Martin Wähmer
829
Stability of light-emitting diodes in the solar UV spectral range
S. Nowy, S. Nevas, M. López, M. Lindemann, A. Sperling, P. Blattner, and S. M. Foaleng
833
New detection systems for UV solar reference scanning spectroradiometers G. Porrovecchio, M. Smid, J. Gröbner, M. Rajteri, C. Portesi, K. M. Nield, and L. Egli
837
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. Calbó, R. McKenzie, C. N. Long, B. Liley, and J. A. González
840
An investigation of solar erythemal ultraviolet radiation at two sites in tourist attraction areas of Thailand
Sumaman Buntoung, Somjet Pattarapanitchai, Rungrat Wattan, Itsara Masiri, Worrapass Promsen, Korntip Tohsing, and Serm Janjai
844
Solar UV radiation measurements across the Tibetan Plateau
Yi-Chun Chen, Gelsor Norsang, Nima Pingcuo, Arne Dahlback, Øyvind Frette, Berit Kjeldstad, Børge Hamre, Knut Stamnes, and Jakob J. Stamnes
848
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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. Antón, J. M. Vilaplana, M. L. Cancillo, D. Santos, and P. Kulkarni
852
Solar ultraviolet irradiance measurements in Aosta (Italy): An analysis of short- and middle-term spectral variability Henri Diémoz, Luca Egli, Julian Gröbner, Anna Maria Siani, and Fabrizio Diotri
856
Solar UV radiation exposure of seamen – Measurements, calibration and model calculations of erythemal irradiance along ship routes Uwe 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 Izaña BSRN station
Rosa Delia García, Emilio Cuevas, Victoria Eugenia Cachorro, Ramón Ramos, and Ángel Máximo de Frutos
864
UV-radiation in the past: Reconstruction and long-term changes in Austria J. 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. Krzy%cin
872
Sky erythema ultraviolet radiance and UV shade charts Toshimasa Kawanishi
876
UV and VUV calibration capabilities at the �etrology %ight $ource for solar and atmospheric research R. Klein, A. Gottwald, M. Kolbe, M. Richter, F. Scholze, R. Thornagel, and G. Ulm
879
Two decades of spectral UV measurements at Sodankylä
Kaisa Lakkala, Antti Arola, Anu Heikkilä, Juha M. Karhu, Jussi Kaurola, Tapani Koskela, Esko Kyrö, Petri Kärhä, Anders V. Lindfors, Outi Meinander, Julian Gröbner, and Gregor Hülsen
883
Aerosol optical properties and their effect on the UV solar irradiance at Uccle, Belgium Efterpi Nikitidou, Veerle De Bock, Hugo De Backer, and Andreas Kazantzidis
887
Vitamin D synthesis measured with a multiband filter radiometer in Río Gallegos, Argentina
Facundo Orte, Elian Wolfram, Jacobo Salvador, Raúl D'Elia, Daniela Bulnes, N. Paes Leme, and Eduardo Quel
891
Estimation of cloud optical depth for low clouds from UV erythemal irradiance
David Serrano, María José Marín, María Pilar Utrillas, José Antonio Martínez-Lozano, Manuel Nuñez, and José Luis Gómez-Amo
895
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Diurnal and daily variations in surface ultraviolet radiation due to ozone variations in the troposphere at Tsukuba, Japan: Lidar observations and chemistry-climate model simulation
Kiyotaka Shibata, Makoto Deushi, Takashi Maki, Tomohiro Nagai, Testu Sakai, and Masahisa Nakazato
899
Biologically effective surface UV climatology at Rome and Aosta, Italy
Anna Maria Siani, Sarah Modesti, Giuseppe Rocco Casale, Henri Diemoz, and Alfredo Colosimo
903
Study of cloud enhanced surface UV radiation at the atmospheric observatory of Southern Patagonia, Río Gallegos, Argentina
Elian A. Wolfram, Jacobo Salvador, Facundo Orte, Daniela Bulnes, Raul D'Elia, Manuel Antón, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, and Eduardo Quel
907
A method of estimating cloud transmission in the UV spectral range using data from different 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 and observations Martin Hieronymi and Andreas Macke
915
A new algorithm for simultaneous retrieval of aerosol and marine parameters in coastal environments
K. Stamnes, W. Li, Y. Fan, B. Hamre, Ø. Frette, A. Folkestad, K. Sørensen, and J. J. Stamnes
919
C-disort: A versatile tool for radiative transfer in coupled media like the atmosphere-ocean system B. Hamre, S. Stamnes, K. Stamnes, and J. J. Stamnes
923
Discrete ordinate and Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transfer in coupled atmosphere-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 focusing Peter Gege
931
Optical modeling of aerosol extinction for remote sensing in the marine environment G. A. Kaloshin
935
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An examination of errors in computed water-leaving radiances due to a simplified treatment of water Raman scattering effects
Jonas von Bismarck and Jürgen 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 Index 955
Participants List 965
