Mina Kang, CUNY City College of New York, New York, United States, Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA EPP/MSI Cooperative Science Center for Earth System Sciences for Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST-II), New York, United States, Fred Moshary, CUNY City College, New York, United States, Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, United States, Hai Zhang, IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, Barry Baker, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, Wei Li, SAIC at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States and Yonghua Wu, NOAA CESSRST and Optical Remote Sensing Lab, The City College of New York, New York, United States