Approximating the Lidar Ratio of Modeled Aerosol Species to Help Inform Lidar Ratio Selection for Clean Marine Aerosols in the Forthcoming Version 5 CALIPSO Data Products

Travis D Toth1, Gregory L Schuster1, Sharon D Rodier2, Marian Clayton3, Mian Chin4, David Painemal5, Zhujun Li6 and Ellsworth Judd Welton7, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)LARC NASA, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, United States, (7)Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States