Athina Argyrouli¹, Ronny Lutz², Fabian Romahn², Diego G Loyola², Richard Siddans³, Steven E Platnick⁴, Kerry Meyer⁴, Steven A Ackerman⁵, Robert Holz⁶ and Andrew Heidinger⁷, (1)Technical University of Munich (TUM), Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Chair of Remote Sensing Technology, Munich, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), The Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (6)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (7)Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States