Community Radiative Transfer Model: Implementing a new cloud scattering database and developing the forward radar module

Isaac Moradi, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), College Park, MD, United States, Benjamin Johnson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, UCAR, Boulder, United States, Patrick Stegmann, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Camp Springs, MD, United States and Ron Gelaro, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, United States