Comparative evaluation of polarimetric and bi-spectral cloud microphysics retrievals: Retrieval closure experiments and comparisons based on idealized and LES case studies

Daniel J Miller1, Zhibo Zhang2, Andrew S Ackerman3, Steven E Platnick1 and Céline Cornet4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (4)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France