Meng Gao¹, Bryan A Franz², Kirk D Knobelspiesse³, Pengwang Zhai⁴, Kamal Aryal⁴, Andrew M Sayer², Amir Ibrahim³, Jeremy Werdell³, Brian Cairns⁵, Yongxiang Hu⁶, Xiaoguang Xu⁷, Jose Vanderlei Martins⁸, Guangliang Fu⁹ and Otto P. P Hasekamp⁹, (1)SSAI, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Earth and Space Institute, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, United States, (8)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States, (9)SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, Netherlands