Hazel Vernier¹, Neeraj Rastogi², Fairlie T Duncan³, Hongyu Liu⁴, Amit Kumar Pandit⁵, Kristopher M Bedka⁶, M Venkat Ratnam⁷, Jean-Paul Vernier⁴, Suneel Kumar⁸ and Anil Patel⁹, (1)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, CBH, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (2)Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati, India, (8)TiFR, Hyderabad, India, (9)Physical Research Laboratory, Chemistry, Ahmedabad, India