Effect of Spectral Variability of Aerosol Optical Properties on Direct Aerosol Radiative Effect

Seiji Kato1, Tyler Thorsen1, Seung-Hee Ham2, Norman G Loeb1, Richard Anthony Ferrare3, David M Winker1, Howard Barker4, Graeme L Stephens5, Sebastian Schmidt6, Kerry Meyer7 and Brian Cairns8, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)NASA langley research center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (4)Environment Canada Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States