Steven E Platnick¹, Kerry Meyer¹, Nandana Amarasinghe², Galina Wind², Steven A Ackerman³, Robert Holz⁴, Richard Frey⁵ and Michael D King⁶, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (4)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (5)CIMSS/UW-Madison, Evansville, WI, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States