Pradeep Khatri¹, Tadahiro Hayasaka¹, Hitoshi Irie² and Tamio Takamura², (1)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (2)Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Tami Fairless¹, Scott E Giangrande¹, Christine Chiu², Lynn Ma¹ and Richard Wagener³, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States

Scott E Giangrande¹, Meng Wang², Michael P Jensen¹, Timothy Shippert³ and Damao Zhang³, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Athina Argyrouli^1,2, Ronny Lutz³, Fabian Romahn⁴, Diego G Loyola³ and Richard Siddans⁵, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Weßling, Germany, (2)Technical University of Munich (TUM), Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Chair of Remote Sensing Technology, Munich, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center (DLR), The Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (5)STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom

Shuang Luo, Shanghai Ecological Forecasting and Remote Sensing Center, Shanghai, China and Yunfei Fu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Andreas Foth¹, Janek Zimmer², Felix Lauermann³ and Heike Kalesse¹, (1)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Meteologix AG, Sattel, Switzerland, (3)Deutscher Wetterdienst, Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg/Richard–Aßmann-Observatorium, Tauche, Germany

Rie Seto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Toshio Koike, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, Public Works Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan and Shinjiro Kanae, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan

Birte Solveig Kulla¹, Kerstin Ebell¹, Leif-Leonard Kliesch¹, Mario Mech¹, Christoph Ritter², Elena Ruiz Donoso³ and Susanne Crewell¹, (1)University of Cologne, Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, Cologne, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz- Center for Polar and Marine Research, Climate Sciences, Atmospheric circulations, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology - LIM, Leipzig, Germany

Yi Wang¹, Jun Wang², Robert C Levy³, Shana Mattoo^3,4 and Yingxi Rona Shi^5,6, (1)The University of Iowa, Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)the University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, & Center of Global and Regional and Environmental Research, & Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology UMBC, Baltimore, ND, United States

Jianyu Zheng, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, Anne Garnier, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Hongbin Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Chenxi Wang, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland Baltimore County, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States

Coda Phillips and Michael J Foster, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States

Teresa Vogl¹, Maximilian Maahn², Stefan Kneifel³, Dmitri N Moisseev⁴, Patric Seifert⁵ and Heike Kalesse¹, (1)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (4)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (5)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany

Johannes Röttenbacher¹, Heike Kalesse¹, Patric Seifert² and Johannes Bühl³, (1)University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research - TROPOS, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany

Terence Pagano¹, Robert Holz¹, Kerry Meyer², Steven E Platnick², Andrew Heidinger³, Galina Wind⁴ and Steve Dutcher⁵, (1)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States, (4)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (5)Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States