Oral Programme 5

5

General Remote Sensing
Convener: B. J. Sohn 
Oral Programme
 / Mon, 06 Aug, 11:30–12:30  / Room Domus Variabilis
 / Mon, 06 Aug, 15:15–18:30  / Room Cambridge
 / Wed, 08 Aug, 11:00–12:30  / Room Domus Variabilis
 / Wed, 08 Aug, 14:00–16:00  / Room Cambridge
 / Thu, 09 Aug, 10:45–12:30  / Room Domus Variabilis
 / Thu, 09 Aug, 14:00–16:00  / Room Cambridge
 / Fri, 10 Aug, 09:30–13:00  / Room Domus Variabilis
Poster Programme
 / Attendance Wed, 08 Aug, 16:30–18:15  / Display Wed, 08 Aug, 09:00–19:00  / Poster Hall

Monday, 6 August 2012
Room Domus Variabilis
Chairperson: A. Larar
Atmospheric Sounding

11:30–11:45
IRS2012-54
Weather and Climate Applications of Ultraspectral IR Radiance Measurements (invited)
W. Smith, E. Weisz, S. Kireev, H. Revercomb, and A. Larar
11:45–12:00
IRS2012-135
Operational hyper-spectral infra-red sounding by EUMETSAT (invited)
P. Schluessel, C. Accadia, T. August, D. Klaes, S. Tjemkes, X. Calbet, R. Stuhlmann, and J. Schmetz
12:00–12:15
IRS2012-272
Observations of HDO/H2O ratio with IASI/MetOp
J.-L. Lacour, L. Clarisse, D. Hurtmans, C. Clerbaux, P.-F. Coheur, and C. Risi
12:15–12:30
IRS2012-212
IASI/METOP sounder contribution for atmospheric composition monitoring
C. Oudot, C. Clerbaux, J. Hadji-Lazaro, M. Georges, S. Saffieddine, L. Clarisse, D. Hurtmans, and P. Coheur
Lunch Break

Monday, 6 August 2012
Room Cambridge
Chairperson: A. Larar
15:15–15:30
IRS2012-221
Retrieval of Relative Humidity Profiles and its Associated Error from Megha-Tropiques Measurements
R. Sivira, H. Brogniez, and C. Mallet
15:30–15:45
IRS2012-337
Synergistic UV/Vis-Infrared ozone profile retrieval from METOP instruments
A.K, Kaifel, M.D. Felder, and F. Sehnke
15:45–16:00
IRS2012-336
Retrieving of the CO2 total content from GOSAT measuring data with help of neural network technique
V. Budak and M. Kataev
16:30–16:45
IRS2012-194
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) L2 Retrieval Algorithm: First Tests With Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) Data
V. Natraj, D. Crisp, C. O'Dell, A. Eldering, and OCO-2 L2 Algorithm Team
16:45–17:00
IRS2012-364
EUMETSAT Radio Occultation Observation With Metop-A and Metop-B in Orbit
A. von Engeln, C. Marquardt, and Y. Andres
17:00–17:15
IRS2012-122
Global Constellation of Next-Generation Ultra-Spectral Geostationary Observatories: GeoMetWatch Six-Satellite-STORM-System (S4)
H.-L. A. Huang, W.L. Smith, D. Crain, E. Pache, and J. Elwell
17:15–17:30
IRS2012-399
Geophysical information from advanced sounder infrared spectral radiance
A. Larar, D. Zhou, X. Liu, and W. Smith
17:30–17:45
IRS2012-140
Combining ground-based, satellite and airborne measurements in the retrieval of the atmospheric state: assessment of the information content
K. Ebell, E. Orlandi, A. Hünerbein, S. Crewell, and U. Löhnert
17:45–18:00
IRS2012-410
Atmospheric and surface sounding from Meteor satellite (numerical simulation)
A.V. Polyakov, Yu.M. Timofeyev, V.S. Kostsov, Ya.A. Virolainen, and A.B. Uspensky
18:00–18:15
IRS2012-206
Monitoring of IR Clear-Sky Radiances over Oceans for SST (MICROS)
X. Liang, A. Ignatov, and K. Saha
18:15–18:30
IRS2012-485
Trace gas and AOD retrievals from a newly deployed hyper-spectral airborne sun/sky photometer (4STAR)
M. Segal-Rosenheimer, C.J. Flynn, J. Redemann, B. Schmid, S. Dunagan, R.R. Johnson, Y. Shinozuka, J.M. Livingston, and P.B. Russell

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Room Domus Variabilis
Chairperson: J. Schmetz
11:00–11:15
IRS2012-282
Characterization of convection-related parameters by Raman lidar: Selected case studies from the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study
P. Di Girolamo, D. Summa, and D. Stelitano
11:15–11:30
IRS2012-290
Retrievals of the Cloud and Boundary Layer Atmospheric Temperature and Moisture Profiles by Using the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) Measurements in Shouxian
L. Pan, D. Lu, and W. Feltz
11:30–11:45
IRS2012-33
General approach to the formulation and solution of the multi-parameter inverse problems of atmospheric remote sensing
V.S. Kostsov
11:45–12:00
IRS2012-367
Atmospheric Profiling Synthetic Observation System (APSOS)
D. Lu
Cloud Properties

12:00–12:15
IRS2012-29
The operational MODIS cloud optical and microphysical property product: Overview of the Collection 6 algorithm and preliminary results (invited)
S. Platnick, M. D. King, G. Wind, N. Amarasinghe, B. Marchant, and G. T. Arnold
12:15–12:30
IRS2012-406
A novel optimal estimation algorithm for consistent cloud property retrieval from multiple sensors
M. Jerg, C. Poulsen, M. Stengel, R. Hollmann, G. Thomas, R. Siddans, R. Grainger, and C. Arnold and the ESA Cloud CCI Team
Lunch Break

Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Room Cambridge
Chairperson: A. Larar
14:00–14:15
IRS2012-465
View angle dependence of microwave and optical cloud liquid water path retrievals
A. Horvath and C. Seethala
14:15–14:30
IRS2012-563
Morning-to-afternoon decrease in satellite-derived stratocumulus cloud droplet number concentration: what can a retrieval artifact tell us about underlying cloud processes?
P. Zuidema and D. Painemal
14:30–14:45
IRS2012-378
Inferences about pressures and vertical extension of cloud layers from POLDER3/PARASOL measurements in the oxygen A band
M. Desmons, N. Ferlay, F. Parol, and C. Vanbauce
14:45–15:00
IRS2012-319
Global and regional time series of cloud properties derived by hyperspectral measurements in the O2 A-band
L. Lelli, A. Kokhanovsky, V. Rozanov, M. Vountas, and J.P. Burrows
15:00–15:15
IRS2012-491
Non-opaque and Opaque Ice Cloud Properties from Infrared Radiances at 3.7, 6.7, 11.0 and 12.0 μm
G. Hong, P. Minnis, W. L. Smith, Jr., S. Sun-Mack, J. K. Ayers, C. R. Yost, and Y. Chen
15:15–15:30
IRS2012-396
Simultaneous multi-layer retrievals of ice and water cloud properties using passive measurements
O. Sourdeval, L. C-Labonnote, G. Brogniez, and A. J. Baran
15:30–15:45
IRS2012-521
Retrieval of liquid cloud properties from POLDER/PARASOL instrument and comparison with MODIS products
L. C.-Labonnote, J. Riedi, and F. Thieuleux
15:45–16:00
IRS2012-167
Characterization of cirrus heterogeneities: optical depth, effective radius and variation of surface albedo.
C. Fricke, M. Wendisch, A. Ehrlich, B. Bohn, and M. Wirth

Thursday, 9 August 2012
Room Domus Variabilis
Chairperson: W.L. Smith
10:45–11:00
IRS2012-510
On the feasibility to combine observations from multi-wavelength radar and the multi-frequency radiometer ADMIRARI to retrieve precipitating clouds parameters.
P. Saavedra, A. Battaglia, and C. Simmer
11:00–11:15
IRS2012-263
Snow Particle Orientation Observed by Ground-Based Microwave Radiometry
X. Xie, U. Loehnert, S. Kneifel, and S. Crewell
11:15–11:30
IRS2012-224
Cloud retrievals using ship-based spectral transmissivity measurements
M. Brueckner, A. Macke, M. Wendisch, T. Kanitz, and B. Pospichal
11:30–11:45
IRS2012-541
Introduction to CERES Multilayer Cloud Properties
F.-L. Chang, P. Minnis, N. Loeb, and S. Sun-Mack
11:45–12:00
IRS2012-252
Are Passive Remote Sensed Clouds Comparable with Active Sensed Clouds?
X. Dong
12:00–12:15
IRS2012-468
Diagnosis and improvement of cloud simulations in the NCEP/GFS using A-Train satellite and ARM ground-based remote sensing data
Z. Li, H. Yoo, and Y.-T, Hou
12:15–12:30
IRS2012-287
Statistics on CALIOP backscatter profiles in presence of cirrus clouds: application to radiative transfer computations
P Veglio, T. Maestri, R. Rizzi, and R. E. Holz
Lunch Break

Thursday, 9 August 2012
Room Cambridge
Chairperson: A. Larar
14:00–14:15
IRS2012-166
VIIRS processing with the Nowcasting SAF Polar Platform System
R. Scheirer, J. Malm, S. Hörnquist, A. Dybbroe, and A. Thoss
Aerosol Properties

14:15–14:30
IRS2012-454
Development of unified retrieval algorithm for aerosol remote sensing (invited)
O. Dubovik, T. Lapyonok, M. Herman, A. Lopatin, A. Holdak, P. Litvinov, P. Tanré, P. Goloub, and F. Ducos
14:30–14:45
IRS2012-360
Influence of sky radiance measurement errors on inversion-retrieved aerosol properties
B. Torres, C. Toledano, A. Berjón, O. Dubovik, V.E. Cachorro, Y. Bennouna, D. Fuertes, R. González, P. Goloub, T. Podvin, L. Blarel, and A.M. de Frutos
14:45–15:00
IRS2012-139
Comparison between Aerosol properties derived from MODIS/AQUA and POLDER/PARASOL over ocean.
D. Tanré, J.L. Deuzé, F. Ducos, J. Letertre, L. Remer, R. Levy, and S. Matoo
15:00–15:15
IRS2012-65
Possibilities for Remote Sensing of Aerosol Vertical Structure using the O2A Band: A Sensitivity Study concerning polarization, spectral resolution, instrument level, and various scenes over land
A. Hollstein and J. Fischer
15:15–15:30
IRS2012-226
Correction for 3D Radiative Effects on Clear Sky Reflectance and Aerosol Optical Thickness Retrieval in Broken Cloud Field - Case Studies
G. Wen, A. Marshak, L. Remer, R. Levy, N. Loeb, T. Varnai, and R. Cahalan
15:30–15:45
IRS2012-390
Characterization of spectral absorption properties of aerosols using satellite observations
O. Torres, H. Jethva, P.K. Bhartia, and C. Ahn
15:45–16:00
IRS2012-239
Aerosol retrieval using GOCI
J. Kim, J. Lee, and M. -J Choi

Friday, 10 August 2012
Room Domus Variabilis
Chairperson: B. J. Sohn
09:30–09:45
IRS2012-425
Retrieving optical thickness and height of Asian dust from AIRS measurements
H.-J. Han, B.J. Sohn, H.-L. Huang, and J. Li
09:45–10:00
IRS2012-460
Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) Algorithm
A. Lyapustin and Y. Wang
10:00–10:15
IRS2012-199
Retrieval of the optical depth and vertical distribution of particulate scatterers in the atmosphere using O2 A- and B-band SCIAMACHY observations over Kanpur: a case study.
S. Sanghavi, J. V. Martonchik, J. Landgraf, and U. Platt
10:15–10:30
IRS2012-202
Can a Spatially Unresolved 3D Mix of Clouds and Aerosols by Disentangled for Remote Sensing Purposes using Multi-Angular Polarized Radiance Observations?
A.B. Davis, M.J. Garay, F. Xu, C. Emde, and A. Marshak
10:30–10:45
IRS2012-242
Aerosol climatology over Japan site measured by ground-based Sky radiometer
K. Aoki, T. Takemura, K. Kawamoto, and T. Hayasaka
10:45–11:00
IRS2012-234
Remote sensing of tropospheric aerosol extinction vertical profile using a ground based UV and Vis hyperspectral sensor and its application for retrieval of trace gas profiles
H. Lee and J Kim
Coffee Break
11:30–11:45
IRS2012-341
A Decade of MODIS Albedo and Reflectance Anisotropy Products
C. Schaaf, Z. Wang, X. Yang, Q. Sun, A. Strahler, M. Roman, Y. Shuai, and Q. Zhang and the MODIS Land Surface Albedo Team
Calibration Traceability

11:45–12:00
IRS2012-474
On-Orbit Absolute Radiance Standard for the Next Generation of IR Remote Sensing Instruments (invited)
F. A. Best, D. P. Adler, C. Pettersen, H. E. Revercomb, P. J. Gero, J. K. Taylor, R. O. Knuteson, and J. H. Perepezko
12:00–12:15
IRS2012-424
The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center Absolute Radiance Interferometer
J Gero, J Taylor, H Revercomb, H Buijs, F Grandmont, F Best, D Tobin, R Knuteson, and D LaPorte
12:15–12:30
IRS2012-102
CLARREO: Radiometric Uncertainty of Reference Inter-calibration on Orbit
C. Lukashin, C.M. Roithmayr, P.W. Speth, B.A. Wielicki, and D.F. Young
12:30–12:45
IRS2012-79
Inter-calibration of METEOSAT IR and WV channels using HIRS
R. Roebeling, J. Schulz, T. Hewison, and B. Theodore
12:45–13:00
IRS2012-225
A radiative transfer based method for accurately calibrating the spectral dependence of satellite radiances using deep convective clouds
P. K. Bhartia, A. Vasilkov, O. Torres, S. Marchenko, S. Taylor, C. Ahn, H. Jethva, J. Joiner, and R. Spurr