Hesham Mohamed El-Askary¹, Wenzhao Li², Stelios Kazadzis³, Panagiotis G Kosmopoulos⁴, Daniele Struppa⁵, Thomas Piechota⁵, Vassilis Amiridis⁶, Mohamed Qurban⁷, Michael J Garay⁸, Olga V. Kalashnikova⁸ and Charalambos Kontoes⁹, (1)Chapman University, Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Computational and Data Sciences Graduate Program, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States, (3)World Radiation center, Physikalisch-Metorologisches Observatorium Davos (PMOD), Davos, Switzerland, (4)University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (5)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States, (6)National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS, Athens, Greece, (7)King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Geosciences Department, the college of Petroleum Engineering & Geosciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece