Jean-Paul Vernier¹, M Venkat Ratnam², Amit Kumar Pandit³, Akhil Raj⁴, Fairlie T Duncan⁵, Neeraj Rastogi⁶, Harish Gadhavi⁶, Gwenael Berthet⁷, Suneel Kumar⁸, Hazel Vernier⁹, Hongyu Liu¹, Bo Zhang^1,10, Melody A Avery¹¹, Kristopher M Bedka¹², Murali Natarajan⁵ and David Painemal¹³, (1)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati, India, (3)Universities Space Research Association Houston, Houston, United States, (4)National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Department of Space, Gadanki, India, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, (7)LPC2E/CNRS, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France, (8)TiFR, Hyderabad, India, (9)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, CBH, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (10)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (11)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (12)NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, VA, United States, (13)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States