Investigating the role of nonspherical particles through a joint implementation of the Dark Target and GRASP aerosol retrieval algorithms

Reed Espinosa1, Robert C Levy1, Oleg Dubovik2, Yingxi Rona Shi1, Lorraine Remer3, Tatyana Lapyonok2 and David Fuertes4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, CNRS/University of Lille, Lille, France, (3)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)GRASP SAS, Remote Sensing Developments, Université de Lille, Lille, France