Evaluating Aerosol Optical Properties in the NASA MERRA-2 Reanalysis Using NASA Lidar Observations

Edward P Nowottnick, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, Peter Richard Colarco, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, John E Yorks, Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sharon P Burton, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Arlindo da SIlva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States