Cornelius Csar Jude Salinas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Dong Liang Wu, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Daniel Emmons, Air Force Institute of Technology, Department of Engineering Physics, Wpafb, United States, Yosuke Yamazaki, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Liying Qian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Jorge Luis Chau, Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Germany and Nimalan Swarnalingam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States