A106
Observing and simulating aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in a 3-D atmosphere
Session ID#: 83522
Session Description:
Clouds and aerosols play a vital role in modulating the radiative energy budget of Earth-Atmosphere system. Most current remote sensing algorithms and weather or climate models consider radiative processes one-dimensional (1-D) and assume cloud and aerosol fields to be separate and plane-parallel. Increasingly, however, studies have indicated that this traditional paradigm is not appropriate, as clouds and aerosols often co-exist and display strong horizontal (3-D) variations. This session invites theoretical, observational, and technological studies aiming to shift remote sensing methods and radiative simulations toward a new, 3-D paradigm. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
· Identification and reduction of errors caused by 3-D radiative effects and unresolved small-scale variations in remote sensing and in radiation simulations for weather and climate models.
· Influence of 3-D radiative processes on cloud dynamics and surface energy budgets.
· Advanced techniques to retrieve 3-D cloud structures.
· Advances in 3-D radiative transfer theory and models.
Index Terms:
3311 Clouds and aerosols [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Tamas Varnai, University of Maryland Baltimore County, JCET, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners: Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Hironobu Iwabuchi, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan and Bernhard C Mayer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Primary Liaison: Tamas Varnai, NASA Goddard GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Insights into Shallow Cumulus Surface Radiative Effect Utilizing Observations, High Resolution Modeling, and 3-D Radiative Transfer Simulations (492590)
Jake Joseph Gristey1, Graham Feingold2, Ian Bruce Glenn1, Sebastian Schmidt3 and Hong Chen4, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, NOAA CSD, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA CSD, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
3D Radiative Effects in Bi-spectral and Polarimetric Cloud Property Retrievals: Theoretical Study Using a LES-satellite Retrieval Simulator (502416)
Chamara Rajapakshe1, Zhibo Zhang1, Zhen Wang2 and Céline Cornet3, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China, (3)Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique - Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8518, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
From Quantification to Mitigation of Three-Dimensional Cloud Biases in Operational Passive Imagery Products (Invited) (508181)
Sebastian Schmidt, LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Hong Chen, LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Takanobu Yamaguchi, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division / CIRES University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Graham Feingold, NOAA CSD, Boulder, CO, United States, Steven T Massie, LASP, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jake Joseph Gristey, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, NOAA CSD, Boulder, United States and Hartwig Deneke, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Interactive Aerosol Feedbacks on Photolysis Rates in the GEM-MACH Air Quality Model for an Athabasca Oil-Sands Modelling Study (548653)
Mahtab Majdzadeh, Craig Stroud, Paul Makar, Ayodeji Akingunola, Chris Sioris, Chris A McLinden, Michael D Moran, Xiaoyi Zhao and Ihab Abboud, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
Plumes or thermals: Probing shallow cumuli in 4D with stereo cameras (Invited) (564354)
David M Romps, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Rusen Oktem, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, Andrew M Vogelmann, Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States and Satoshi Endo, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States
Spatial scales of 3-D cloud radiative smoothing: what the spatial variability of multi-angular and multi-spectral features can reveal about multiple scattering in cloudy atmospheres (609852)
Daniel J Miller1, Zhibo Zhang2, Chamara Rajapakshe2, Kirk D Knobelspiesse3 and Kerry Meyer3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
3D Cloud Tomography using Satellite Observations: Defining the “Veiled” Core (620362)
Linda Forster1,2, Anthony B Davis3, David J Diner4 and Bernhard C Mayer1, (1)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Deep learning of cloud structure and three-dimensional radiative transfer for cloud remote sensing (623832)
Hironobu Iwabuchi1, Ryosuke Masuda1, Sebastian Schmidt2, Alessandro Damiani3 and Rei Kudo4, (1)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (2)LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (4)Meteorological Research Inst, Tsukuba-Shi, Ibaraki, Japan
Quantitative evaluation of three-dimensional cloud radiative transfer effect using multi-satellite data (629459)
Megumi Okata, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Tsukuba, Japan, Nakajima Teruyuki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Earth Observation Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan, Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Inoue Toshiro, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan and Hajime Okamoto, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
