Jing Li¹, Li Xichen², Jing Wei³, Barbara E Carlson⁴, Andrew A Lacis^4,5, Ralph A Kahn⁶, Zhanqing Li⁷, Oleg Dubovik⁸ and Nakajima Teruyuki⁹, (1)Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (4)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, New York, NY, United States, (6)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Univ of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (8)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA)/CNRS, University of Lille, Lille, France, (9)Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan